This is an analysis of the poem Au Passant D'Un Soir that begins with:
Dites, quel est le pas
Des mille pas qui vont et passent ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXABX cdX XXXe XXXX AXXABX XXaXX XbbX XXXX XXXX XeXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXb bXXX XXXX fXfd AXXAcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,3,4,4,6,5,4,4,4,4,8,7,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 11111110 11100010 1010101 11001110111 100 1011011 11110 1110100 111010111100 0110111011 111011101110 11111111011 111111111001 111011111011 11111101101 101101011001 1010101 11111110 11100010 1010101 11001110111 100 1110011111110 0111110 01011011 110111110100 111100 111010 1010010010 11001111010 011110 11011011 1011001111 110111010 11111011011 10101111011 10110011110 110111101110 111101111110 111101110011 111111001011 010111101011 1010010110110 11111111110 1100111011 101100101101 1100110110 110011101010 1011110111 1110010111 11010111010 1100 111011 100100 1010110 1110 110010101100 10011110110 110010111001 1011011111100 111111111100 111111111101 1101011101 111010101011 110011110011 1101010010010 111011110010 1111110010 1110111001110 1100101001 1010101 11111110 11100010 1010101 1100111011 100
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; pas, ma, et, de, qu'il, tre, oh, nous, ses are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, oh are repeated.
The author used the same word nous at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Au Passant D'Un Soir;
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