This is an analysis of the poem Ruines that begins with:

L'illustre ville meurt à l'ombre de ses murs ;
L'herbe victorieuse a reconquis la plaine ; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXa bXX XXX XXa XXXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111011 1100010011 110011001010 0101011101 110111110100 1110010011 100101111110 11010110100 11101101111 11010111010 11011101000 111011011 1101100111 011110110 1010101100 0110111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, le are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ni is repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Ruines;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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