This is an analysis of the poem Dans La Forêt that begins with:
De quoi parlait le vent ? De quoi tremblaient les branches ?
Était-ce, en ce doux mois des nids et des pervenches, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXaXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110010110110 1111111111100 1111010111 11101111111 11010011010 1011101010 1111011111 10011101110 111101011110 110101000110 1011101011 11111010101 11110110101 1001111110111110 10110111110 111011111101 110111000101 1100011110 11101011010 11111111 1110110111 11101111101011 1111111011111111 10101011011 10110111001 11001011110 11010001010 1101101111000 10110111101 101111010111 1111111001100 10100111111 111010100111 010110111010 111101111110 1010111011 010111101111 11011111001 1111110110011 101010111110 111100111010 11100111010 10110010110 11111101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2205
- Average number of words per stanza: 379
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; les, t, je are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words je, les are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Dans La Forêt;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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