This is an analysis of the poem A Thilda that begins with:
Quand, penché sur le bord de la vie éternelle,
Gouffre que le néant emplit silencieux,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXa XXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1110101110 110110100 10011010011 111011110110 100101111111 1110101110 11100011011 111100111100 110101110101 1110010111101 111111111101 110010111110 1011111110111 111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.
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