En Allant À La Chartreuse De Miraflorès by Theophile Gautier: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem En Allant À La Chartreuse De Miraflorès that begins with:

Oui, c'est une montée âpre, longue et poudreuse,
Un revers décharné, vrai site de Chartreuse. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 01111011110 110111001 110010110111 1011011110 111111111 111111111011 110100100100 11010100101 1101011111 110010111001 11111010101 11101111110 110011101011 111011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 680
  • Average number of words per stanza: 130
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; les, de, des are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines che is repeated).

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  • summary of En Allant À La Chartreuse De Miraflorès;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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