This is an analysis of the poem Un Fantôme De Nuées that begins with:
Comme c'était la veille du quatorze juillet
Vers les quatre heures de l'après-midi...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabXbcdcXXaXeXXefgXhXiXiXXXXgjhXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXdXXkkXXgbXXXXXXbXXXfjfXXXXXXXXgcXXXhbXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 88,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101010 111100110 11100111110111000 111111111 10011010 111011101011000 111111110 1110101101 1110111101011111 1110 1110011000 11110011110 11111111110011 11000 10001100110111010 10 101111111111 110110110110111 0101011001 1011111011101 101111000100110 11101010110101 1110101110 1101001110 11011101011100 11010111110 1101100 1101000011010 11111110010000 11011111100 1100011101 01110110100111101 110010101011011 111111101111100101 1 111100 1111010 1110110101 110100110 1111101011 010100 111011 11010010 11011000 11111 1110101110 1010111011 101100101110100 1011110011001 10 11011111101100100 10 11110101011011 10 111111011011 111 11111110111001 1 1111010011 0101101110100 1001100 10011011011100 110111 1101101001011 1100 1111011100 11010111100 11110111 111101101101 1101100110100 11001110100 1010 1110110 1010110 11011101010 010100111 10110 111001 111001110010111 1110010100110 10100011010011 101011 1010110 1000011 110001001110101 1101011 111001011111000 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3464
- Average number of words per stanza: 631
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, de, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words tapis, il, les are repeated.
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- summary of Un Fantôme De Nuées;
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