This is an analysis of the poem C'Était Longtemps Avant La Guerre that begins with:
Sur la banquette en moleskine
Du sombre corridor,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101100 01100 11010010 11100 11011011 110111 0101111 101101 1111101 110110 1011101 100110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
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More information about poems by Paul-Jean Toulet
- Analysis of C'Était Sur Un Chemin Crayeux
- Analysis of C'Était, Dans Les Vapeurs Du Nard
- Analysis of Carthame Chatoyant, Cinabre
