Poem Analysis of Celui De L'Horizon by Emile Verhaeren for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Celui De L'Horizon that begins with:

J'ai regardé, par la lucarne ouverte, au flanc
D'un phare abandonné que flagellait la pluie : ...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX aXXa XXXa XbXX XXXX XbXa
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 10111101011 11100110011 11100111001 10101111001 011001011 101011111010 111010111010 10111111100 111111011010 1111101100 1110010110100 111010101101 111111110 1111011100 100111011100 10011010101 11101111011 11011111100 111110111100 110001111111 111011110 1010101001 10100111011 1110101101001 10010110010 11101011100 11101100100 10110110010 111010111110 101010111110 11011111001 101010111100 110111111 101100110011 110110111010 1110101110111
Amount of stanzas: 9
Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
Average number of words per stanza: 35
Amount of lines: 36
Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; de, des, un, et, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines te is repeated).

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Celui De L'Horizon by Emile Verhaeren: poem analysis

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