This is an analysis of the poem L'Aube, L'Ombre, Le Soir, L'Espace Et Les Étoiles that begins with:

L'aube, l'ombre, le soir, l'espace et les étoiles ;
Ce que la nuit recèle ou montre entre ses voiles, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXb XaXX XXXX XXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101101110 11111111011 111110010101 1110101010 1101110111 111101110100 111111101101 11110011011 11000110111 11111101111 11101101010 1101101011110 10111110100 11011101101 11101111010 11100111110101 111110101011 1011110011 10111011110 111110101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • 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; le, ils, et are repeated.

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

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  • summary of L'Aube, L'Ombre, Le Soir, L'Espace Et Les Étoiles;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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