This is an analysis of the poem Soir D'Octobre that begins with:

Un long frisson descend des coteaux aux vallées ;
Des coteaux et des bois, dans la plaine et les champs,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXbXXaXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXccXXdXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXcXdXXXXXXXXXXXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 66,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100111011 110111111111 01001111111 110001111010 11101111011 110111111010 111110101011 101111100010 11010110110 11101111011 111111101 1111101111 1011111001 1100101111 11101010111 10111101110 11011011010 101000110100 0011101110 11010111001 10001011010 111011100110 1111111110 101011111001 100101110101 01010100101110 101010111100 11010101101 101100101000 101001010100 11111010110 1101001111 110100101111 11111111100 1110010011 1110011110 011110111010 111001010110 1101111110 101111011 1010110011 0101011010 11110111110 101101110100 11001001100 1010111011100 11110111100 1011011010 1110101100100 10111011100 1001101111110 11011011110 11100011001 11111111 101100100111 1101010111 1111110110 10111011111 100111111 10111111111 11110110011 10011001110 1110010111 10101101010 110100110111 110100100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3207
  • Average number of words per stanza: 567
  • Amount of lines: 66
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; les, des, la, de, le, res, ta, ves are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words plus, ecoute are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines res, ves are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase tournoie connects the lines.

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  • summary of Soir D'Octobre;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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