This is an analysis of the poem Le Reve Du Jaguar 1872 that begins with:

Sous les noirs acajous, les lianes en fleur,
Dans l' air lourd, immobile et saturé de mouches,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110011011 1111010110010 10111001110110 100100101100 1101111110100 1011101011010 011111111 1011001011 111011100111 1011111100 10111111110 10111111010 1111010111 111011100101 1110101111 1111011111011 1111111010 1110100110100 101011110011 111101111010 110111110100 11111010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 530
  • Average number of words per stanza: 98
  • 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; et, les, ses are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Le Reve Du Jaguar 1872;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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