This is an analysis of the poem La Nuit De Juin that begins with:

La nuit glisse à pas lents sous les feuillages lourds ;
Sur les nappes d'eau morte aux reflets métalliques,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbbXbXXXXXXXXXaXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111001 111011110100 1111111010 10110111000 111011110 100101111010 1010010011 1101011010 110010111111 11011101001 1111111101 111101111 111010111101 11111111010 11011111110 11111011000 110110111100 01101111110 111011010 1110101100 1101100110 110100101101 1101011011 101010110111 11100101 100110111100 111100111111 110101011100 1101101100 1001010110 01010011011 1110111111 110001111 11111110011 111111111100 110101101110 11011011001 11010111 1110011101 1110001111 1111110010 11011101110 10111011110 11111111111 1001011010 110101111110 1111111111011 10110110111 1001111111 1100011011 110111110100 11111111111 11110110100 111100100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2565
  • Average number of words per stanza: 460
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, s, les, et, par are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ves is repeated).

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  • summary of La Nuit De Juin;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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