This is an analysis of the poem Songe D'Été that begins with:

A d’autres les ciels bleus ou les ciels tourmentés,
La neige des hivers, le parfum des étés,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011111110 11110010111 111110110000 1100111011100 1110001110 110111111011 11010110110 01000111010 11000111 111011110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 457
  • Average number of words per stanza: 88
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; les, s, des, o, l are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines s, res are repeated).

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