This is an analysis of the poem La Nuit De La Toussaint that begins with:
1er couplet.
— Ma porte, Julien, quel dommage !...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XaXa bXCXX X XXXd bXCXX X XXXX bXE X bXXX bXE X XXXd bXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,5,1,4,5,1,4,3,1,4,3,1,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110 11100110 10111111 11111110 100110111 1101101 100110101 11111 1011110 11111 110 11101011 1011011 11010110 11100111 101011001 11001011 11111 1011110 11111 110 1011101 10110110 1111110 1111010 1011101001 0101110101 111100 110 1111101 101011100 01101101 110110110 101011001 11110101 111100 110 10110111 1110101 1111011 100111111 11111001 101101101 1011110 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tu, le are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word tu is repeated.
The author used the same word ma at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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