This is an analysis of the poem Le Trappiste that begins with:

C'était une des nuits qui des feux de l'Espagne
Par des froids bienfaisants consolent la campagne :...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaabbXXXcXXXXXdXXXXXXbbbXXX XeXXXXXXXXaaXXXXXf XXgghXXXXXiiXX XXXjXXXXXXbXXXXXXXkXXXXXggXXXgXXXX XXXXXXXglXhXXXXXlXXXXXXXXbXXX aXXgXXaXXXXXXXXjXXcXXXjXXXbhXXXXXXlaaXXXXXXhXXgXX fXXXhXeXXXXgXXXXXX aaXmaaiXhXmXXXXXXkdXXXbXXXXXXmXXaXXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,18,14,34,29,49,18,37,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111010 111100100110 1110010110 1010011101 110101011 11100110011 110001110011 11011101011 1111010010 101010100110 011111011 101101110 11010111000 0110101110 11101111100 10111101010 110011111010 01101110110 11101110100 11011100100 111111110 101001101 11011010111 11100101011 10010111011 1110111001100 1101010011 10111111110 110010110011 110110111101 100111100111 1110001110 1001101110 11111100 1100111010 1101111100 11111011011 1111011111 1011111110 11010001111 10110011110 11110011111 1001101110 1001111010 1011100100010 11011010101 11101101101 11100111 111011111011 111101101 110011110110 100100110010 1101111100 1101101110 1111101110 1111011100 0100110111010 11110101110 11111111110 11111110100 11110111110 1101110010 10011111101 1001110111 011110010011111 11101101101 101111010010 10110101110 110111111110 111111100110 111111111111 11111001110 11101110110 111110111110 01001111100100 1010011101100 110010111010 011110011 11001111111 1110111101 11111011100 01111010100 100110110011 1111011010 1111010111101 0101111101 111100111110 111011100110 110110001 11111011111 11110101001 1001100111 111011011 11011011010 101100110010 10001010111 11011111100 1110101100101 11011101110 10110111101 10110110011 1110111001 11010011011 1010101110 11001110111 110011110010 1110111111 10011110111100 1111001110110 10101011111 10111110011 11011110110 11011011101 110101111010 1111111101 1011010011 111111010111 110111101110 110011111001 1101111111001 101110100100 101111101110 101011110101101 101101111101 110100111010 10111111110 1101110111111 11011011110 1010011011 1111011110011 111110110010 1011110010110 1111001101100 110111101100 11011111010 11011011110 111100110110 11100011011 111110111011 010011110011 111111011110 110101111110 1100101100 1011011111 10111011011 0110101111 101011111111 111110110100 1110110111110 10101010111 1010011111011 101101111011 1011011000110 110111011100 10101011110 11010111010 11101111010 111111011 0111001101 1100111100110 110101010100 100101110110 1111111111 11011100110 110110011011 1100111110 1011100110 1110101110 110011100111 11010011101 11001111100 11001011111011 111111001101 111110110010 0101011111111 111111011011 0111111101 1111001100100 1110101111111 1101011110 1110111011 101110010 11110111100 01011110101 11100010100 11111011100 010011110 1101111110 11110110010 10111010111 111110100010 110101010100 011111110100 101110110011 1111110110110 11110110011 11111111101 10001111110 101111101 10111010110 11011101111 111110100 110111011 100011101001 10011110010 11111101100 10110110110 101010110011 101001111010 11110101010 1110110101010 1001100110100 11010111 1010101011110 1011011110 11011111101 101011111110 1111111101 101001111101110 111010111010 110111011010110 1100101111011011 110010110110 111110111101 11111110010 0111001111 1011101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1356
  • Average number of words per stanza: 247
  • Amount of lines: 227
  • 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; des, les, une, il, la, le, est, et, son, sa, pas, nous, leur, nos, m, vous, en are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words il, son, la, et are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Le Trappiste;
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