This is an analysis of the poem En Ce Rugueux Hiver... that begins with:
En ce rugueux hiver où le soleil flottant
S'échoue à l'horizon comme une lourde épave, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010100110 11001111 11011110111 1101111001 1111010111011 111011101111 110111111010 111111111111 11011101110 11011011101111 11010110111 11010001011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; plus, que, le are repeated.
The author used the same word et 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 me is repeated).
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