This is an analysis of the poem L'Avril Boréal that begins with:
Est-ce l'avril ? Sur la colline
Rossignole une voix câline,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXa XXXXbX XXXXXX XXXXXb XXcXXc XXXXXd aXXXbX dXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXb XXXXXX XXXXXX XdXXXX XXXXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101110 100111 0111 011010110 0111101111 011 111111 010111 110 1111100 110001 0110 010101100 011011100 11100 11111110 110111100 110 10111111 1101101 1110 1110010 1011111 11111 1010100 110110 110 1011010 10110010 010 1011110 1001111 111 1111100 11001110 111 10011111 101011 111 111110 1110101101 1110 110011 1111111100 111 1110111 11001101 1110 1010111010 110110010 111 011011 1101001 1010 1110010 11100110 1111 1111110 11111010 1011 1111110 1011111 1110 001110110 10111110 1110 1111110 111110 1110 11101000 11011010 0100 101100110 111110010 11110 110110 0101100 1100 110111100 100111000 1110 100011 111110 0110
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; la, le, des, et, les, plein are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words est, avec, plein, je are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines le, es, ve, res are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase le connects the lines.
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