This is an analysis of the poem Le Crépuscule Est Triste Et Doux Comme Un Adieu that begins with:
Le crépuscule est triste et doux comme un adieu
Le crépuscule est triste et doux comme un adieu....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAaXXXXbbXaXX XXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010011111101 010011111101 0101101111 110011110111 01001101010 100100111110 01101110110 0101111111110 1111010100010 110001111110 111110011 111011110 1111001110111 1101111010 1110011111 110010100110 1111100111110 111010110100 1111101111 1001101110 111100011000 11100001101 1110100111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 531
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; le, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word le is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines adieu, tremble are repeated).
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