This is an analysis of the poem Paris At Night that begins with:
Trois allumettes une à une allumées dans la nuit
La premiére pour voir ton visage tout entier...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXaXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100011100111 11011110110 1101111 1101111 1100101011100110 1110111 010 1101111001 010111000100 0100111 010111 10101010011011 1111011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; la, voir, pour, to, see, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words la, the are repeated.
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