This is an analysis of the poem L'Escurial that begins with:
Posé comme un défi tout près d'une montagne,
L'on aperçoit de loin dans la morne campagne ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111101 11000111110 0110011101 1001010111 11011010 101001100 1011011111 1111111111 1011111110 11010111100 10110111000 1110100101 1110011011100 111111101110 1011101111 11110011101000 11010100110 011001110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; des, et are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es is repeated).
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- summary of L'Escurial;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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