This is an analysis of the poem Un Soir (Ii) that begins with:
Sous ce funèbre ciel de pierre,
Voûté d'ébène et de métaux, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXX XXXXXaX XBXXBXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001 11101 10111110 1100111 10111110 1111010 10101110 11010011 100111 11111110 110011 100111 1111101 01110001 011110 111010 11101110 111100 111010 11101110 101010 1111010 111010 10101110 1100011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, de are repeated.
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