This is an analysis of the poem Heure D'Automne that begins with:

C'est bien mon deuil, le tien, ô l'automne dernière !
Râles que roule, au vent du nord, la sapinière,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXa XXXXX XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 1111011010 11111011100 10011110001 111011111 111011110101 1111011010 10001110010 1010101101 11011110111 11101111011 1111011010 111111110 1110011010 1111110111010 111011110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • 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; pleurs, re, de, bras 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 re, s are repeated).

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  • summary of Heure D'Automne;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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