This is an analysis of the poem Et Maintenant Que Sont Tombés Les Hauts Feuillages that begins with:

Et maintenant que sont tombés les hauts feuillages
Qui tenaient le jardin sous leur ombre abrité,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa bcXX dXcX XbbX XXeX XXXX XXXX XXXb adXX XXeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110011111100 11001011110 1110010110 1111001111100 11110111001 111011110101 1101111110110 111010101101 1011011011001 1011111110 101110111101 1111110010 1111101101 11111101011110 101111110010 1111010110011 11110111111110 01011011100 1111011101 111110110110 101110101010 1011011011110 1100111110010 110111111110 110011111010 10111111010 1011010111 111011110110 10110101110 1111010111010 1111110111111 0111111011101 11110011111100 101101100101 110111100111 1101110101110 111111101011 11001011011 1111011011011 11101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; que, se, le, et, leurs, leur, ne, notre, de are repeated.

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

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

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