This is an analysis of the poem Nuit Seconde that begins with:
Jusques à mon chevet me poursuit mon idée
Fixe : toutes les nuits j'en ai l'âme obsédée....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXXXXXXbbcc X XXXXXXXX X XXXXaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,1,8,1,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011011 110111111 1101101110 110100101100 11011011111 110001111 101111010 111100101010 1011001101011 1001111110110 1111100111111 01001011110 11110110010 11010011010 1111011111 11111111101 1 110111111111 1001111011 111100111011 101110110 111000101110 1111110110 110100111 0101111100 1 11111010011 11111101010 010101010100 10110010110 11100101111 111000011110 101111100100 1110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mon, jamais, je are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, moi, tre are repeated).
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- summary of Nuit Seconde;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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