This is an analysis of the poem Les Soirs D'Été that begins with:
Lorsque rentrent des alentours,
Tels soirs d'été, les attelages,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX bXXX XXXX XXXX XXcX XXXX bXcX aaXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101100 11111000 110111100 111001100 11101010 0100111 11011100 1111001 1110110 110010110 11110011 1001110 110111100 11101100 1110110 101011110 11000101 1110110 11011100 10111010 1111111 10101100 10110010 11011010 110011 10111110 111110 10111111 11111110 11110111 10110010 111110000 11100110 111111 11110110 1111110 11111101 11011010 111110 11111111 10101101 11111100 101011000 10111110 1111110 01011100 11011011 101011110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; les, la, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ils, on are repeated.
The author used the same words les, on at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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