This is an analysis of the poem À Adolphe Poisson that begins with:
À l'heure où le loup rôde en cherchant sa pâture,
Heure sombre où l'enfant tressaille au moindre bruit !...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1101111011 1111110111 111011111111 1101011110 1001001111 11011110110 11001010100 11111110100 111111110 11110101100 101111010110 1110101011000 1111011111100 111110111001 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o is repeated.
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