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

À peine les faucheurs ont engrangé les gerbes
Que déjà les chevaux à l'araire attelés...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110110110 111101010 100101101110 111110101111 10111111 11111011110 11110110110 1101110100 1101001110 100010111110 010110110110 10011110100 11100011111 10111110110 1011110010 10011110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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, et, le are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word les is repeated.

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

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