This is an analysis of the poem En Arles that begins with:
Dans Arles, où sont les Aliscams,
Quand l'ombre est rouge, sous les roses,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaX XaX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111100 110111110 1101 11110110 111111 1111 1111101100 1111110 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of En Arles;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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