This is an analysis of the poem Chant D'Automne (Song Of Autumn) that begins with:

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Bientôt nous plongerons dans les froides ténèbres;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XbXX XXXX XXXX cdXX X XXe XXXX XXXX F a bghb ijgk lhgf bdfj X gjia jXbc hgfj X F a mkmk memj mhmh Xhmh X gaga nana hghg m X a maXa Xbmb ljlj fefe X jaja acac bgbg b f gcXc abcb fggf cefeXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,1,3,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,1,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,1,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1110011101 0111011111 10110101110 01100010111 1101101111 1101010111 11001111010 1111101101111 11101111 1010111111 101011011110 11101100011 1111111101 10111111011 1111011010 11101111 1 101111101 1111101110111110101111 1111001100111 11010111101 1111110111111 01011101101 11010110110 11110110110 11111111110 10110011110 01010010111 1010 1 1111000110 111010011110 0101101010101 100010101110 1100011101 1101001110 1101001010 110011101011 11011001101 010001011101 110010010110 1001001001001 010111101001 111110010011 111011101010 101001110010 1 1101010111 110101101010 101011111111 01111011101 1111010010 1001101000100 10110001010 001010100101 1101010010 1110111111 101101001010 1111011010 010110100 1010 1 10010111110 0111011101 11010010010 0111010111 1001001101 11110111110 1101011101 01110101010 100110101010 0100010110 110101010010 10010100101 0101011110 1101010101 1111110101 1101110001 1 1111010111 11011111001 1111111111 1101110101 11110111010 0101101100 010010001110 1100010101 11010101010 1110110111 11110101110 1111010111 0101110 110 1 1111110101 1111001101 1011101100 01010100111 1111110110 1101001111 1101001101 1110010101 1101110101 11001101010 11010011101 101101010010 10110100101 1101010001 1111011101 01001110101 1 111111010010 1111111101 11111111010 01011100101 1111010100 10011010101 1011001101 1111010101 11010100101 1111110111 1001001101 0101010101 0101101011 10 11010100111 1101010101001 101010110101 1010101101 101000101 01011001010011 111101001010 110100001011 1101110011111 0101111100001 110101011001 001000101001 010110011111 0101010001011 1101101011010 1000101010001 01010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 48
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 152
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; t, le, m, ni, me, your, or, of, and, to are repeated.

    The author used the same words ii, all 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 tre is repeated).

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  • summary of Chant D'Automne (Song Of Autumn);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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