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

Les vents sont accourus : leur troupe déchaînée
Déjà vers son déclin précipite l’année....

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,20,22,6,14,10,32,20,18,93,121,122,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100111 1111101 1101111011 1011111111 1001011010 11011111110 01111011101110 1101110111110 010110111010 11110110110 11011111010 11010110100 1111101111 10110101110 10001111111 111011101011 1101101101 11111010100 001101111110 1111010110 1111111110 01101010111 110011110111 1011111111 111100110110 11110111110 101001010110 1111001111110 1111010111110 1011111110 10010111111 11101110100 111100111110 11110110010 110111101100 11111011 011011011 1100110011 11110101100 1010101101 1111111111 11111111010 11101110100 110111011101 101111111010 1110100110011 1101111011 1011111101 10111110011 111011011011 110111101000 111111010 1101001100110 01001111110 1111111111 11101011 11011101100 111011111 111101111 1110011110 10011111010 111110011 110100011011 11011001011 10110100110 10000010110 1100111001 11001001110 110010101101 10101011010 011101010011 1110011110010 011100101011 00110011111 111110111100 110010111100 1111001110100 01101011100110 01111010100 101111111010 0101111011 10001111011 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10101111011 11010011011 100101110100 11111110100 1111111010 111100101110 110110110001 01100111101 11101010010 11101111111 1110111110110 11110111111 11011111010 01011011010 111111011 11011101111 11111010111 1111111111 1111010010 101110111100 11111011110 101100111 1001111011 1101001101 10001101111 1101011100 11111111110 11011111111010 11111011010 11011110100 1111011011 100111111 110110111011 11011010111 111001110110 0101110111 11110011101 111010101111 101101110 110101100110 11011110111 111111111111 11001111101 11110101111 0011111111 10110011110 101110010 111010111011 10011010110 1101111111 100101110 1110101011 1100110110 111010101100 11101011011 1101111111 100010100110 11111101011 110011110100 1001001111100 11101111100 11010000110 11111001010100 111101010110 1101110100110 111111011010 100011111011 0101101001 101111111 111010011 11011111111 100101100101 0111010111 111110110010 1111110110 111110111100 111111011 1110011110110 111001101010 011100011001 110111111010 11111010110 11110111001 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110011111111 10100110110 111010111 101111100101 11010100101 1011111100 110011110110 110100111011 10010101001110 1010011110 111111111 1010011111 1001100101000 10101111110 110011101110 1111001111 01001111 1101011100 111110111 1111101110 11101011001 101011111110 111111111 110001111001 111101001 10111010110 11011010111 110010011100 111101110100 110010110110 1011110010 11011011001110 110100110100 11011111111 1111111110 11101101110 1101011110111 1101110110 10011011101 11110110111 01110101011 01001101110 100111101010 10011101110 10101110011 10010011110 0011010100 0110011100 1111101110 110111011 110101100 11011100110 110101111 011100100110 1011111011 100110100110 111001111 10110010110 1111010010 111111100 1111111101 10010011110 11010011110 111011110 11100110010 111110110110 11101011010 111001111100 11100110110 1111001110010 110101101 111001111101 10110010101 011010111010 11111100010 10101111100 10111011100 11010010100 11011101111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1788
  • Average number of words per stanza: 340
  • Amount of lines: 496
  • 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; d, et, ses, de, nos, un, les, l, la, s, du, au, que, qu, je, le, t, te, sa, il, vous, vos, nous, e, en are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words d, tout, et, vois, la, de, ils, il, sous, que, l, le are repeated.

    The author used the same word le 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, re, bres, es, tre, s, t, pas, le, te, jour, ne, sens, lance, ge 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/Novembre;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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