This is an analysis of the poem Les Heures Claires that begins with:

O la splendeur de notre joie,
Tissée en or dans l'air de soie!...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aX XX XbcXXX dXXX XX XXX XXeXX XXXX XXXf XXXX XXXg acXX Xf XcXXXXXX XXhi XXXXXeXXXX XXX hXjXXX XXXeXiXe XXX XfXX XXX CXCe aXXX XXXd hXXb eXXkXX XaXlXXXX iXXX Xae XXX XcXc XmXe hfXX hnee XoXm XXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXeX XXX hXXXgXXXX XhXXXX XXXe XXpXXXhXXhX XhXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,6,4,2,3,5,4,4,4,4,4,2,8,4,10,3,6,8,3,4,3,4,4,4,4,6,8,4,3,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,10,4,3,9,6,4,11,6,4,4,4,4,5,5,4,10,4,4,4,4,8,10,5,4,6,8,4,4,12,4,6,6,8,4,6,4,3,2,3,2,3,4,4,3,4,4,6,8,3,5,5,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,12,4,5,7,4,4,4,4,3,3,3,14,4,5,4,7,4,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 121
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 593
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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, sont, ce, plus, le, nous, toutes, les, mes, m, si, j', tais, laisse, la, ni, que, ne, tes, mon, coeur, en, des, comme, on, me, notre, une, un are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ni, tout, je, j', les, et, le, mais, tes, oh, sans, mon, dis, vivons, la, contre, a are repeated.

    The author used the same words voici, car, laisse, la, je, et, f at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mes, tendues, me, e, es, re, nous, pas, tre are repeated).

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