This is an analysis of the poem Janvier that begins with:
La tempête a cessé. L'éther vif et limpide
A jeté sur le fleuve un tapis d'argent clair,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXa 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: 110111110 01101110101 1101001010 111001110001 1100101111 101111110001 111101011010 11111111 111011100100 111110100100 10011011010 110111010100 1010101111000 01010111 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 15
- 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; de, son are repeated.
The author used the same word la at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ales is repeated).
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