Soleil Couchant by Theophile Gautier: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Soleil Couchant that begins with:

En passant sur le pont de la Tournelle, un soir,
Je me suis arrêté quelques instants pour voir...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXXaXabbXXXXXXXXccdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101011011 11111101011 001111010101 111010001 11010111110 1101110111 111110110 111110100001 00110111101 111011011 110101100110 11101111010 1111001110 11101111111 11100110111 100101011 111101100110 1100111111 11101111111 011110101 11111001011101 111110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1047
  • Average number of words per stanza: 188
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; aux is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines vague, pas are repeated).

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

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