This is an analysis of the poem La Noctuelle that begins with:
Au blanc soleil de minuit
Qui semait d’argent la grève...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXaXX babXXXXccX XXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 1101011 1101111 0110111 111100 1111010 111100 1111 1011010 1100110 1111011 11101 11110101 11010 11001110 111111110 11111 111101 101111 011110 1110101 11101111 101111100 110111 111010 1111011 1110 1111111 111011 1011110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; je is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word noctuelle at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of La Noctuelle;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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