This is an analysis of the poem Les Horloges that begins with:
La nuit, dans le silence en noir de nos demeures,
Béquilles et bâtons qui se cognent, là-bas;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX aXXX XXXX XaXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101101100 10111111011 101101100110 11001011 11101110 1110101011 1011001011 11001011 111011011 01110110 10101100100 11001011 1011101 1011011 110111001 11001110 1100 100011010 100110100 100110110 11001100 10111110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word les is repeated.
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- summary of Les Horloges;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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