This is an analysis of the poem Tristesses De La Lune (Sorrows Of The Moon) that begins with:

Ce soir, la lune rêve avec plus de paresse;
Ainsi qu'une beauté, sur de nombreux coussins,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX bXXX XXX XXc d Xbef bXbb XXf gcb X d ahha biib jkj dkd c d keek bllb cgk cgk d X hbhb mbmb ccd ccd a d Xkak mdad ggf ggfXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11111101010 10101101010 111101110 010100011011 101101101010 10111111010 1111111010 11011011100 110111111010 11101110 111100010 1010111111 11010111010 111111111001 10001 0101101100 101010101010 1100011101 011001011001 101001001001 100110110011 1101100110 110010110010 10010100 101101010101 0101010001 001000110011 001010010010 110001010011 010110100 10001 1101010111 10110111010 01110101010 0111011001 110100101010 1101010101 1101110101 100101110010 1010010101 11010101010 01000100101 1011010101 01111001010 1001011001 0101110 010001 0101110010001 1101010101001 0111000010001 01001110101001 0100011010010110 110010100101001 100111001111 10010000011110 111101010111 1001001100101 11011000101001 10001010010101 1001101011101 110001110001 0101110 100011 01011100010 11010010101 01000101110 0111011101 0101010101 11011101010 0101010101 111101010010 11011100100 1011010111 0101010101 01001010101 11001000001 1100011001 0101101011 10001 010110010100 110101010111 110101010001 100101011001 110101010101 101101010101 110101010111 00101110101 111001000101 110101010101 010011000101 10001000111 110101010101 010110010101 01010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 34
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 98
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; de, of, her are repeated.

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