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

Janus règne ; et tandis qu’un solemnel usage,
D’un masque de douceur couvrant chaque visage,...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,19,27,34,24,16,19,22,63,20,22,20,64,20,22,20,46,22,86,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1483
  • Average number of words per stanza: 282
  • Amount of lines: 602
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; me, il, t, de, la, des, l, vous, le, les, ce, qui, s, leurs, d, r, et, dans, je, plus, tes, ni, en, elle, est are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words la, a, qui, osez, l, le, et, s, vois are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, me, es, pas, le, lui, te, e, jour, s, ne, gorge, ge, tre are repeated).

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