This is an analysis of the poem Il Fait Novembre En Mon Âme that begins with:
Rayures d'eau, longues feuilles couleur de brique,
Par mes plaines d'éternité comme il en tombe ! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX AX XXAXa XXXX XXXX A XXXX A XXXX A XXXXAXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,5,4,4,1,4,1,4,1,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100110101001 111101111 10111011111 111101111111 1111011011 1110111 101001101111 1111011 1110111 1110111 11010111 111111 1010011010 1111111111 101001101011 1111111 10110010 111110 110110011 010110 1110111 10101110101 1110011001 111111111 1011100 1110111 111011 11101101110 1110101011 10001111111100 1110111 11101011 1111100 11101100 11101101100 1110111 1111111 100111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, de, la, pluie, en, mes, des are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, il are repeated.
The author used the same word il at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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More information about poems by Emile Verhaeren
- Analysis of Inconscience
- Analysis of Insatiablement
- Analysis of Je Noie En Tes Deux Yeux Mon Âme Tout Entière
