This is an analysis of the poem L'Étang Mort that begins with:
Comme un lointain étang baigné de clair de lune,
Le passé m'apparaît dans l'ombre de l'oubli. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXa XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1110110101 0110011010 111011101000 11010011111 11001010011 1011001001 111001110100 110010100111 11101100 11111110010 1100111110 11101111001 0111101110 111001111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es is repeated).
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