This is an analysis of the poem Quand Le Soleil Lave Sa Tête Blonde that begins with:
Quand le Soleil lave sa tête blonde
En l'Océan, l'humide et noire nuit ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX aXXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10011111 11010111 1110111111 1011111111 111111001 01100111111 1101111111 111011010 11010101110 11111010100 110101110 1111101100 011011011 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; de is repeated.
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