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

Battez, bruyans tambours, battez de rive en rive.
Il paroît, c’est lui-même ; il avance, il arrive :...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,20,24,56,26,24,42,38,88,44,104,22,24,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1812
  • Average number of words per stanza: 344
  • Amount of lines: 540
  • 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; il, battez, vous, de, les, res, d, l, un, s, vos, la, des, et, le, mais, du, ni, sans, tu, qui, ils, elle, qu, ces, e, leur, t, votre are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words les, il, le, de, qu, mais, ces, et, d, par, que are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines s, res, e, foule, tres, pas, jour, re, tombe, le, mes, dent, bres, es, ne, tes, lustre are repeated).

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