This is an analysis of the poem Le Bœuf Spectral that begins with:
Le grand bœuf roux aux cornes glauques
Hante là-bas la paix des champs,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XAXX XaXA XXXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111010 1111111 11101110 10001110 111111100 11111011 011111010 1111111 111101 11110110 1011110 1011010 100111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les is repeated.
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