This is an analysis of the poem Comme Tous Les Soirs that begins with:

Le vieux crapaud de la nuit glauque
Vers la lune de fiel et d'or, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaX XXXXX bbXXX aXbX XXbX XXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,4,4,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01100111 1110111 110111110 111111 11 111110 1110010 11100100 1101110 01100110 1110110010 10011010 1011110111 110110110 111110 1000111 1000111 10001111 100011100 1111111010 111001100 1011011 1111111 11101010 11101010 10110101 1111 1011111011 11000100 01100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • 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; la, les, monotones are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words monotones, ni are repeated.

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  • summary of Comme Tous Les Soirs;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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