This is an analysis of the poem C'Était Alors Que Le Présent Des Dieux that begins with:
C'était alors que le présent des dieux
Plus doucement s'écoule aux yeux de l'homme,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11010111 110011101 1010101001 101001100 11110011 100101101 11000111111 1100100111 11111110 111011011110 11111110 1100110100 11111110 11101100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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