This is an analysis of the poem Hier, La Nuit D'Été, Qui Nous Prêtait Ses Voiles that begins with:
Hier, la nuit d'été, qui nous prêtait ses voiles,
Etait digne de toi, tant elle avait d'étoiles !...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXab XcXbbX XXXXXX XXXXdX aaeXXe cXXXXX XXbXXX XaXdee XXeXXe X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111111 10101111010 11111110111 11101110100 1110100010 111111 11101101101 11110010111 10011111111 11111101111 11111101 111100 11110111110 11111110110 11111111110 111111111110 1100100010100 110101 101101110110 110111111101 1011111011011 1101111011011 1101110101111 1111 1111111011011 101111101111 11111111101 11111111100 01111111 111110 11110110111 1111010111101 11111011010 110111011011110 11101101110 11100 11101111111 11111111111101 1011010101 1100110110 1110011010 110101 1110111100110 1101111010 01010110001 11110011101110 1101100111 101001 11110111111 111110110110 111010110111 01011110100 110101110101 11110 111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; tant, tait, et, la, de, lui, qui, c'est, l'amour, dieu, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words tant, si, c'est, ce, et, les are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es, e, res are repeated).
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- summary of Hier, La Nuit D'Été, Qui Nous Prêtait Ses Voiles;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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