This is an analysis of the poem La Nuit D'Avril 1915 that begins with:
Le ciel est étoilé par les obus des Boches
La forêt merveilleuse où je vis donne un bal...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXbX XcacX XXXXXX XXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,6,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111110110 111001111111 11001111010 110101 1010110 1111111110 1111011110 1101110101 1111011110 111011100110 1110111110 1101011010 110111101111110 101111101110 11010 101011 1101011111 0101111010 111111111111 10101110110 11111111110 11100111000 11011011111 10100011000
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; les, il, pleut, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word la is repeated.
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