This is an analysis of the poem Rayons D'Octobre (I) that begins with:

Octobre glorieux sourit à la nature.
On dirait que l'été ranime les buissons....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX XbXX XXXa XXXc XXXX XXXX dcdX XXbX XXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010110 1101110110 11111011110 111111110110 01011010100 01101011111 1101101101110 100101101 11111111010 1011011101110 111011101 10111010100 111111100 10111010010 10111110 01101101101 11011101011 11010100110 10101011011 110010111111 111100111010 111110111111 1110010011 10011110110100 01110101000 11111011001 10110011101 1101011101 1111011111 1110011111 111101011001 1101011111 111111010110 110001101100 1110011011 01100110100 1101111001 111101101 11110110110 1111011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; les, de, des, et are repeated.

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  • summary of Rayons D'Octobre (I);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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