This is an analysis of the poem Heures Mornes that begins with:

Hélas, quel soir ! ce soir de maussade veillée.
Je hais, je ne sais plus ; je veux, je ne sais pas ; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110101 111111111111111111 1111111011 1111111111111 111101110011 0111111101 101001011011 111011111110 101111011101110 1011111110000 110111101100 110011101000 111010111010 11110111010 1110101100100 11101010101 110111110110 111011101101 110011111110 11111101111 110111111 11011111 1110110011 1101011010 111101110011 111110101111 110011101010 111110011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; je, sais, ne, de, cela, se, ces, longues, heures, et, sans, les, une, torture, des, croix are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words cela, et, une are repeated.

    The author used the same word une at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Heures Mornes;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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