This is an analysis of the poem Une Nuit Que J'Étais Près D'Une Affreuse Juive (On Night I Lay With A Frightful Jewess) that begins with:
Une nuit que j'étais près d'une affreuse Juive,
Comme au long d'un cadavre un cadavre étendu,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX Xbb cXX d defb fgXe fbh cXb X i igig fdfd abb ajj j a gggggffg fbbfbb Xh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,8,6,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111101 11111011010 111110101110 111111111 11110011010 1010101011 11011011110 110101110110 11101011101 1101111011010 1011100010 11111100110 1101001110 1001100110100 1111001010 1111001010 1001011010010 110101111010 010110101001 110011010100 0101010101 0111100011 111010101010 111100111110 111010010010 0111101101 011001010110 1110101010 1001000111 010110100 11110101010 11110101010 1111010111 01010101110 0101110101 1101010100 0101010011 1100111100 0111010001 1101111101 10111011110 01010001010 0001011101 111101101010 01001111010 0101110 0101 1111010010111 101110111111 111110011101 0111011101001 110101010001 010101111100 010011101100 010111100101 111111010100 1001001100010 1001110111010 011001011000 111101010111 010101001101 0101110
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, your, my, her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words one, her are repeated.
The author used the same word one at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines jewess, lying are repeated).
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