This is an analysis of the poem Noël Breton that begins with:
Un bruit s’est répandu dans la Basse-Bretagne.
On dit que l’Enfant-Dieu vient de naître, et soudain...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX XbXb XcXd XXXX XXXe X eXXX XXXa XXXX fXfX XXXX X XbbX XdXc XXXX XaXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXc dXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011110 111101101110 110111101 1011111110 101111101111 111011111010 11101111101 11111011 01111110011 111100101101 1011110010 11001111010 11011111100 110100110001 111111101010 11110111110111 1001011110 110101110110 10100011100 11011101011 11011111100 11010110100 110110100110 110011101101 1 111111111 11001110110 101101010111 10011010110 10011111101 111110110101 110111001101 110111111111 1110111111 111001101100 111011011 0101111101110 1110110111 11001101000 010110010101 10110101100 1111101111 1011010110 1101111001 111001111110 1 1111011111110 1010100101010 11111011111 11011011000 11101011110 1011101101 11100110011 111011111111 11101101110 010111111 1101111011 1101111111 1101010111 101110100111 10101111110 11101111110 10110110101 111110110 1111001111 11111010100 111110111 011010101101 111001100111 011110011000 11011111110 11001111111 1101101101100 111110011 1110101101 111011110111 11011110110 01111111011 101101101010 1110010110 1011011011 111100111111 101001101010 1100110010 10011111000 10011010110
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; la, l, de, en, et, d, le, un, elle, qui, oh, les, son are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words des, un are repeated.
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