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

Rodomontade
Il était appuyé contre l'arche massive...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXXXX XaXXXX XXbXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXbX XabXXX XXXccX XXXXXa XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1000 11101110 01110111110 11100011 1111011010 10110110100 10010010 1111011100 01110110001 111110 1110010110 1111001011 1101110 11011001011 111101001 10111101 111011100101 1011001111 100011 1101001101100 100110111000 01010100 11111110 1011011111 110101110 111011001010 1111111100 1000110 110110110110 100110100110 11011110 11111001100100 1111011111100 11110010 111000011101 100011111011 11011010 11001010100 010001010010 1011101 1110101110100 1100011110 101110010 100101110 11111100101 1011110 101111111 111010100011 1110110 1101011010 1101001111 1101011 111000110010 1101000111100 0101111 1010011 11101101010 11101101 11111101111 111011011 111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 61
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; son, il, de, je, me, le are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ses, pour are repeated.

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

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

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