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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