This is an analysis of the poem Simultanéités that begins with:
Les canons tonnent dans la nuit
On dirait des vagues tempête...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX abXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 1101101 111111010 010110111 1101011 110010111 1111111 11110110 1111111 1101100 11110110 1111001 1111010 11110110 11110101 1111010 1101010 1111111 011100 11111 10100111 101000110 110101 110111 111101 11010101 1100111 1001110 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; bas, des are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word les is repeated.
The author used the same word il at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ennui connects the lines.
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