This is an analysis of the poem Lorsque La Douce Nuit... that begins with:
Lorsque la douce nuit, comme une douce amante,
S'avance pas à pas, à la chute du jour, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXa XaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111010 10111101 1010111011 1101110 1111100110 10011110100 1000111101000 11100111 1011001110110 110101110100 011110110110 1011110 11110111110 1010101010 1011011110 110110 1110011110 0111101011 111100110100 11100010 1101101111 01011110110 011111110101 1111110 1101111010 1101110110 1110010110 1110110 111001111100 10101001010 10101101011 1010101 11110111100 101001111010 111110111010 0110001 11110110101 11010110100 1111100101 110101 11111111101 01010100101 1111110111111 11110110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; toile, du, la, tout, que are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word s'avance is repeated.
The author used the same words lorsque, quand at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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