This is an analysis of the poem A Vianden that begins with:

Il songe. Il s'est assis rêveur sous un érable.
Entend-il murmurer la forêt vénérable ? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXbXXXXXXXXXX XbXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101111 101100111 101111101111 111101110 111101110011 0101011101010 110101100110 10101110111 00111111110 10111010110 111011111110 1111001110 1101111110 01101011111 1111100110 101100111000 10010011111 111111001111 101101100110 111110010111 110110110110 11011010010 1101111010 1111001110 10110010110 100001100110 1100111000 010010010110 0111010111 11111111011 110010110110 1011101110 10101110010 1101011101 1011111010 11111111110 1100111111 11011111110 010110110100 110101101 111110111101 1101010010 110101011111 111010110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1045
  • Average number of words per stanza: 190
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • 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; il, t, les, dans, le, de, et, parce, la are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words dans, parce are repeated.

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

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  • summary of A Vianden;
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