This is an analysis of the poem Nuit Septième that begins with:

Dandysme
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X X XXXXXXXXXXXX X XXXXXXXXXXaXbbcXXXXX X aXXXbXXcXb XXXdXX dXXXXdXXXX XXXXbX X XXXXeXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,12,1,20,1,10,6,10,6,1,8,18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 1 111001101100 1001001101000 1100101110 110101101100 110001110010 1110001011100 100111111100 110011110010 101111010011 110010110011 1011111010100 111110110100 1 101110110111 111100111110 11101011010 111011110 11001101110 100001110100 111001111010 11110110011 1111111111 1101010001 11110111011 01101010001 11011011010 1111011100 011110110101 1010011100 11100111110 10111010110 111011010 1101100110 1 11010100 1100010 11111 11110 111110 11010011 1111011 1110101 10110 10011 10100101010 11101011100 101011110100 101001110001 11110011100 1101 101011 1101110 1111100 1001110 10011100 011011 011010 101111 1110100 1011010 10101001111 01111011101010 11101011010 1100011011 1101110001 11000110 1 111101010 1001011000 110111000 110100111 1110111110 101001011000 111100101000 11111101000 10011110110 10011010110 100100111010 11100110111 11010101111 10110110101 1100010100 10101110010 111000111110 111101101110 11100001100 10000101010 11100111001 1011001000110 1111000111000 11110111000 1110110011 1111010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, le, des are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words le, c'est are repeated.

    The author used the same word c'est at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines teinte, s, re are repeated).

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