This is an analysis of the poem À M. Et Mme Hector Bossange that begins with:
Ils sont bien loin de nous ces premiers jours du monde
Où, prodiguant ses dons, la nature féconde...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXX XXXbXX XcdccX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXeaXX cceXcc cXcc XXXc XXXX dXXX bfXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101101101 1100111101 10111110111 110010100010 111111011110 1011001110 11101111 1000011001 10100010110 1011111101 111001110 11001011010 11111110100 110010111001 110111110101 11111001111 011011100110 1101110100110 01110010110 110110111010 11010010110 111010111011 110100101101 1101011110 10101111101 1101101011 10111001010 11001010111 110001011100 11011110001 111110110110 0010101100100 111011111011 110010110111 1110101101 010110010110 1010101111 1101110011 01011111 111111101 11010011010 11011111101 1010011 11001110 110111 11010110 101100110 11001011 110011010 111101110 110110 11001110 0110100 11001101 11101011 0011111 110110 0101110 1111011 11000101 01111 01100100
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, les, vous, en, votre are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
The author used the same word sur at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ve is repeated).
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