This is an analysis of the poem Le Mont Des Oliviers that begins with:

Alors il était nuit et Jésus marchait seul,
Vêtu de blanc ainsi qu'un mort de son linceul ;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXXbXcdeeXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXX X XXXafXXXXXXX ggdXXXaXXfXX XXXXXeaXhXijXXXXXXXXkkXXcXhh XXXXbXjXiXXeXXXXcXaaXXeeXXhhXeXXeXXXXhXdXeXX X dXXXXXjjXjek k XjXXXkX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,1,12,12,28,44,1,12,1,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011111101 101101010110 101010110110 1011001011001 1111110011 110111111 01110111111 111001101101 1001101101010 111111100 11111001111 11001110011 10111111111 1111111111 101100110111 10111110 110101111010 1110110110101 11100110110 0111010111110 01011010100 110110111100 11111111011 111111101 1111110001 1111001101010 10111101111 101110101001 111100110011 110111011 1101010101111 1101111110 11110101100 01011011010 1 1101111111 010101111111 11111011101010 11101111111 111101010111 1110111011 111111111 10101011111 11101111110011 10011011010 110110100 100101111100 111110110010 1110111101 01011011101 11011100110 10010110010 10111011110 111001111001 110011011110 11111111110 11111011111 101011111110 101110110100 1100110110 110011101100 11101110110 101101101100 1101010101011 110001100110 1100100110 110111110 11111111101 01111011100 10110101110 101110111011 1101101101 111111110110 101111111110 11111111010 111101101110 1110101110100 111101111100 10100111100 1111011011 01111010111 11011011010 11001010110 111111011001 1011011001 11011110110 11110110101 1111111111111 11101111110 01101011000 110101110 111011010010 01101110111110 101100111010101 101111111110 1101010110110 110111110 11100111100 110010011101 10111111100 101110111111 111011111 1110110011 1110111111111 1100111010101 100010101110 10101111110 110110101101 101001111001 1111111010 101111010 1101111111 1001101101 101101110101 10110011110 110100111111 10011111101 11011001110 1110011110 1111011101 11101110010 101010110111 111011011111100 111111010 1010010111010 10101111011 11001111011 1011011101000 11110110011 110111110 01110111111111 1 100101101101 111101110111 1110111110 11111111100 1101011010 10011011110 1101010111 1110110111 1111111110 1110110100111 10101110011 1111111010 010 10111010111000 010111110101 11011111100 10111011110 0110000110 111101111110 1101001100
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 700
  • Average number of words per stanza: 133
  • Amount of lines: 153
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, il, le, et, qui, la, les, ce, qu'il, s'y, entre, un, sans are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words il, aux, les, ce, un are repeated.

    The author used the same word p at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines robe, pas, s, e, es, re are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase mal connects the lines.

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