This is an analysis of the poem Le Grillon that begins with:
Triste à ma cellule,
Quand la nuit s'abat,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXX XaXXXXXX XXbXXXbX XXXXXXXX XXXaXXXX bXXXcXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110 11110 111010 11111 1110 1011 1101 11001 1110 11010 1011 11110 11101 11101 1101 1110 1101 111111 11101 1101 11101 111 1111 101110 1110 10100 110 10111 10110 11110 10111 01111 11111 110 11111010 1101 1111 11111 11111 10110 11011 110010 101 10111 110111 11100 11011 10110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; il is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word il is repeated.
The author used the same word la at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Le Grillon;
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