This is an analysis of the poem La Nuit that begins with:
Depuis que dans la plaine immense il s'est fait soir,
Avec de lourds marteaux et des blocs taciturnes, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111011111 1001101111000 11111110100 1110010101 011000101010 1111110011 11011111001 11111101100 101101010 111010100100 111111110000 11001011010 111011111010 1010111110 111001011100 101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; et, de, s are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words les, et are repeated.
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- summary of La Nuit;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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