This is an analysis of the poem Novembre that begins with:

Jours de deuil ! plus de nids sous le feuillage vert ;
Les chantres de l'été désertent nos bocages ;...

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: 10110110101 11001101100 1101010101110 101101100010 01001010110 1111001001100 11101111100 11101110010 1101111110 1001010110 11111100101 110111100100 101110101010 11101111101 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:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, les are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re is repeated).

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