This is an analysis of the poem A Léane that begins with:
Au feu de quelle étoile, à l’or de quelle rive,
Avons-nous quelquefois réchauffé nos pieds lourds ?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX Xaba XXXX XXXX XXcX XXXX XXXX XXXX XdXc XXXX XbXX XXXe XeXX XXXX XXXd XbXb baXa XeXX beXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111011 1011001111 111011011 11111010011 11011011101 1011011111011 11011001101 111001101100 0111010110100 0110110110 111011011010 111011011011 1111011111110 111110101 11111001011111 11111111101 1011011111 11001010111 101111011 10111111111 110111101 1011011110 10101111011 11111111111111 1100011011 111011010 11001111010 11011011100 110101001100 1101110100 111000111100 101111111111 110101101010 101101101010 1011011100 1110010010 10111010111 11101011010 010010011001 01001101100 1110111010 1001101111 100011010100 101010111010 1111010110 11011111111 101011011110 10111100110 1101011110 1110110011 110001111111 1110001010 11110111110 110111001 1011010111 10100011001 111101100110 110111101 1111011011100 11011010101 1111101 111110100100 110111110011 101011110111 11001110011 111001100110 1111111111 11100011111 01110101110 110110110011 1101111111110 1111100011111 11011111111 110110111 1110111101100 11111111001 1100011000110 01111111 1010100010 111111001 1111011111 1111100111 1111111110 111110110
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
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; de, et, adieu, que, tout, s, d, tant, fois, trop, l are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words adieu, que, en, tant, a, trop are repeated.
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- summary of A Léane;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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