Poem Analysis of Reste. N'Allume Pas La Lampe... by Catulle Mendès for close reading

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Reste. N'allume pas la lampe. Que nos yeux
S'emplissent pour longtemps de ténèbres, et laisse...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX 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: 110111111 1001100111 11101011010 01101110100 1101111011111 10011110111 10000101010 110011110 11010100101 011111110 1101111111000 11111111010 1110110110 111101011010
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
Average number of words per stanza: 30
Amount of lines: 14
Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; nous, et are repeated.

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