This is an analysis of the poem La Pluie that begins with:
Longue comme des fils sans fin, la longue pluie
Interminablement, à travers le jour gris,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX aXaXaXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX XbXXaX XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXX XXXX XXbXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,13,6,5,17,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111111 10000010011 11101101111 100011 111 11 1101010101 1101110 111011 111011 111010101 111011100 100 1111 11111110 11110000010 1010110 11101000 11000110 11100100 1001100 10010111111100 1110110 11101011100 1101011 100010 11001011010 11101110 1111011 01110110 1000111011 0111101111 011010110 1111110100 111011 111 111111 111 111111000 11101000 10010 1101 11101110 11001110 101100010 11000 11011 1100111 101011110 110101 1011100100 10111110001 1011000110 1111110 101100100 11 111 10101100 11 111101111 1011011011 111 111 100110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, les, la, pluie are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words la, sur are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gris, pluie are repeated).
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- summary of La Pluie;
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- history of its creation;
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