This is an analysis of the poem Le Vent Nocturne that begins with:

Oh ! les cimes des pins grincent en se heurtant
Et l'on entend aussi se lamenter l'autan...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111011110 1110101110010 1011010100 1101111101100 1010101011 111101111011 110011101110 1111111101 11101100110 1100110100 11101101110 111100110110 111110101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 634
  • Average number of words per stanza: 108
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; attys, les are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.

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