This is an analysis of the poem La Cloche Du Soir that begins with:
La barque s'enfuyait sur l'onde fugitive ;
La nuit se prolongeant comme un paisible soir ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb aXaX 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: 1110011100 111110011101 011011100 1111011101 1010101110 10111110010 01111010010 11111110100 011111010 11111110 11011011010 0100111111 1111100111 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; la is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word la is repeated.
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