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

Grossis par le torrent des nèges écoulées,
Les fleuves vagabonds roulent dans les vallées ;...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,20,20,21,103,82,71,89,60,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2496
  • Average number of words per stanza: 480
  • Amount of lines: 478
  • 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; les, p, la, l, sans, n, aux, de, le, d, nous, des, tout, et, qui, ce, tu, ton, s, du, mes, ces, pour, un, il, que, t are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words les, pr, je, ce, et, tu, ces, de, que, mais, toi are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es, tes, re, e, res, bres, ant, ne, ge, tre, jour, s, me, de, foule are repeated).

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

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  • summary of Les Mois/Mars;
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