This is an analysis of the poem Orage that begins with:

Comme un cavalier noir sur sa route de feu,
De la croupe des monts soulevant des buées,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100111101 0111110011 1010010011 1011111 1101010110 1110101110 11011110011 1100111010 1110110010001 111011100110 111010110010 111011110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; des, de are repeated.

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  • summary of Orage;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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