This is an analysis of the poem Les Mois/Avril that begins with:

Des cavernes du nord l’hyver s’est échappé.
Il revient, de frimats encor enveloppé,...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 72,42,42,18,84,21,61,185,20,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2566
  • Average number of words per stanza: 500
  • Amount of lines: 552
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, vous, e, de, l, d, pour, les, s, et, il, un, le, son, tes, des, re, mon, t, elle, se, du, ses, en, nous are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words cet, que, v, il, l, conserve, je, le, peine, ses, se, viens, la are repeated.

    The author used the same word l at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, tre, es, foule, s, jour, re, tale, res, tendre, vent are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase e connects the lines.

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