This is an analysis of the poem Il Pleuvait. Les Tristes Étoiles that begins with:
Il pleuvait. Les tristes étoiles
Semblaient pleurer d'ennui. ...
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 tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011010 101010 111110 1101110 1010011110 111101 1110111110 101111 11110101 11110 11111110 101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; t is repeated.
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