This is an analysis of the poem La Mort Du Loup that begins with:

Les nuages couraient sur la lune enflammée
Comme sur l'incendie on voit fuir la fumée,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXbXXXXXbaXXbXXXcXXXXXXXdXXXX X XXXXeXXXXXXX XXXXXXXceeXdXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,1,12,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011110 111011111 1111110100 11011011010 1111111101 1111010111 110100111010 1111001110010 11011001010 101100101111 1110110111100 1101111100 10111110110 1000111111000 111111111 11101010011 11110111011 01111011111 00101011101 1011010111111 011111110 100111110100 011110101100 1101101110 110110111110 11011110110 110111011010 10011111100 1111111101 110111101110 111111111 101101110 1111011011 111001111110 1011111110110 11111111100 01110111111 111001101 1000110111110 10110111100 011110111010 1110101010100 11110100110 1101111101 1010101111 01011011100 1111011001 11101110011 111010111100 11101101110100 10010101011 110011011101 010110111110 1101010111011 0111011111 11010011001 1110111011110 1110110111 11101010101 100111111011 1 11111111011 1101011111 01011111111 101010111101 11110011111 11111110111 11101011010 01011011011 0111010101110 1101101100100 1101010110010 101100011010 11111111110 11101101110 101110111111 111010100100 0111111111101 10100111010110 111111010100 111001111001 1101111111101 0101010110 10111011 11011111101 11010011001 1100011111 111101010100 11111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1055
  • Average number of words per stanza: 193
  • Amount of lines: 89
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; les, en, et, le, il are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, s, te, res, es, che are repeated).

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