This is an analysis of the poem Soir Religieux (Iv) that begins with:
Le déclin du soleil étend, jusqu'aux lointains,
Son silence et sa paix comme un pâle cilice ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXaX XXaX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001110010 11011111110 11011010011 111101111100 10011011001 110101111101 11111110001 110011101111 0100111111111 11101101 111001110010100 01111111101 11011011100 111001100111 1101011101 10011110100 111101110 1010101110100 01110111011 1101011111101 11111010100 111010111110 101101101011 111001101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, le, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
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