This is an analysis of the poem Bien Que Déjà, Ce Soir that begins with:

Bien que déjà, ce soir
L'automne...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXcXXXXXXX XaXX XXXcX XXbXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,5,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111 10 1110111 11110 1011010 11110 11101101 10 111010 110111 111010111 10101011 111110110 01110101 11111001 11111110 11111100 1011111011 1101011110 10011010 111111100 11101 0111110010 111100111 1110011 1010100 11001110 1110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; les, contre, et are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word contre is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es is repeated).

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  • summary of Bien Que Déjà, Ce Soir;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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