This is an analysis of the poem Rondel that begins with:
Il fait noir, enfant, voleur d’étincelles !
Il n’est plus de nuits, il n’est plus de jours ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaX XXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110100 1110111101 11010101010 1101011010 10111111111 111110011 1111110100 1011111011 1111111000 11110111011 1011111000 1111110100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; il is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word il is repeated.
The author used the same word entends at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word tincelles at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Rondel;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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