This is an analysis of the poem Étude De Nu that begins with:

Un jeune Italien, superbe et fait au tour,
Qui posait tour à tour...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb XXXX XXXX cXXX XXXX XbXX XXXX dXXX XXXX XXXX aXdc XXXX XXXX XXXX dXee bbXX XXXd aaXX XXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100101111 11011 11110011101 01001 111111011 101110 11111111000 110100 111010011100 01110 11110110110 111110 11101111111 11100 1110111100 101101 1101111111110 1011100 111111110 11110 11010111110 11101 1111111110 11010 10011111100 11101 0111111100110 1011000 110110110100 010000 1111100111 10111 101110111100 1110 11111011110 111100 111111110110 11110 101110110100 111000 1111101111 111110 11110011001 111011 111010010 10010 110111011100 11010 111011001111 1111 1111111011 11111 110110100110 11110 01111111111100 010100 1001110110101 0110110 11111101111 1011 101100111111 10111 11101111011 11110 11011111000 111100 1111010011 11011 11111101111 111011 11010111110 01110 100111111001 011110 1111110011110 11011
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 76
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words s, il, le are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tour, on, re are repeated).

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  • summary of Étude De Nu;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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