This is an analysis of the poem J'Écris Près De La Lampe. Il Fait Bon. Rien Ne Bouge that begins with:
J'écris près de la lampe. Il fait bon. Rien ne bouge.
Toute petite, en noir, dans le grand fauteuil rouge,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XABXXXXXXX XABXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111111111 10111101101 10101111011 1111111100 1111011110 1111111110111 1111100101011 11010011101 11111101010 11111010110 110111111111 10111101101 10101111011 1111111100 1111011110 1111111110111 1111100101011 11010011101 11111101010 11111010110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 488
- Average number of words per stanza: 98
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
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 author used the same word j' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word femmes at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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