C'Est La Bonne Heure Où La Lampe S'Allume by Emile Verhaeren: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem C'Est La Bonne Heure Où La Lampe S'Allume that begins with:

C'est la bonne heure où la lampe s'allume :
Tout est si calme et consolant, ce soir,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaaX XXXX XXbbX XcXXXcXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111110 10111110011 10100111110010 11 11111100 11111 111111 11001100 11111101111 1111101 111101110 11111111 111111110 1110 0110110 0101101010 100 1111111010 01100101010 111110 111010 111111110 1101110101 10111110 1110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; la, et, je are repeated.

    The author used the same word c'est at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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