This is an analysis of the poem Mélanciole Équatoriale that begins with:
Le Midi sur les bois étend sa langueur lourde ;
Et l'on n'entend plus rien, — rien que la rumeur sourde...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX aXX XXX XXX XXa XbX XXX XXX XXX XcX bXb XXa XXX cXX XXX XXX XXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111101 111011111101 11000110100 1111001010011 0111111111 10101110100 11011010111 101011110010 1111110010 11101110100 01001011101 1111100110 11111110111100 110101101110 011111001 010111010110 1101101100110 111000110011 111101110100 100110101101 110011101010 110010110110 110110111101 110011010100 110010100010 1011011111 111010110010 11101011111 101101101010 11011011011 11001011111 1111111011111 1111001011 111010111111 1101011100 110100110011 11001111110011 101110011111 110110111011 111101110 1011000110100 0111111111100 1110101111 10011100111 11111101011 11011111 11110010111 11110110101 1011110110110 111101011110 1010111110 1001111110011 10111110001 11010011111
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; rien, le, d'un, un, de, et, mon are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word pas at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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