This is an analysis of the poem La Lune that begins with:
Or, la Lune d’argent disait au Soleil d’or :
— Si tu es empereur, je suis impératrice ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101011 111100111100 111111111110 1101110100 111110111111110 111101111111 111010101100 11110111110 01001101011 10111011000 1010101101 1110110010 1110111110 111110111001 110111101110 11111101110 11111001111101 0110110100 11110111110 1110011110 111111100111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; d, de, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word par is repeated.
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- summary of La Lune;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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