This is an analysis of the poem Nocturne that begins with:
à Arsène Roussaye
Bois frissonnants, ciel étoilé,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aaX XXX XXX XXX XbX XcX XXX X XXX XXX cXX bXX XXX XbX XXX XXX dXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110 110011 1111011 100111 11110010 11110010 1010101111 00111110 111110 01111110 1011110 11111110 11101110 1111100 1111111110 101100110 11111100 11111111 111110110 111010 1100 10101110 1111101111 11010111 1011110 1111110 11111110 11101110 11101100 11010111 111011110 1100110 101111 11101111 111110010 1111101 1110111 011110000 1101100 111111 11111000 1111010 11000100 101010 11100110 1101011 1110010 111001 11011001 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 83
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; que, l are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
The author used the same word je at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Nocturne;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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