This is an analysis of the poem Nocturne en plein jour that begins with:
Quand dorment les soleils sous nos humbles manteaux
Dans l'univers obscur qui forme notre corps,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXaX aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110111010 11001011101 1111111111100 1111010111 1101100110100 100110100100 1011100110101 110101110100 10110101111 11111111101 111011010100 111010101101 11101010110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; de, les are repeated.
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- idea of the verse;
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