This is an analysis of the poem Novembre that begins with:

Les grand'routes tracent des croix
A l'infini, à travers bois ; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbXcAXXc XXXXX ddXX XXXXXX cXXXXXX XXXXXX EXXEXXXcX XXXXX XXXXdacXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,4,6,7,6,9,5,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001011 0100101 11001011100 0100101 11001011 111011 11001110 0100111 101110110 10101111010 1010110111 110111 11110 10110011 1111001 11011101110 11101100111100 101010101 101101111 1111111111 111110111000 110110 1100011 11110111100 111011 11000111100 101000111 111110000 111010010 1111111101010 101011101 11110011101 111110100 11101011 11111011100 11100110 1111110101 110011001 1111111101 1111110101 101111100111 111010 01011110 100111010 01111000 11010111 1010111011 110100110 1101100111 11000110110 11101010011001 10111111 1101010 1101111001 1100011101 101100111 01001011 11001111100 010011101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 59
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; les, arbres, et, vos, s, tous, ces, des are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words arbres, au, oh are repeated.

    The author used the same word arbres 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 s, tre are repeated).

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  • summary of Novembre;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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