This is an analysis of the poem La Plaine (Ii) that begins with:
Par les plaines de mon âme, tournée au Nord,
Le vieux berger des novembres mornes, il corne, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XaXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111011111 011011001011 101110110101 111110110011 101111101110 1101101011 111011101 101111111110 1010110111 11101101010 111111110 0110110011 1011101011 111111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; au, de are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines te is repeated).
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