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

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Le pied de la nuit brune au front des tours se pose....

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbXX XXccXd X XXeXXXXdXX X ffXXXXXegg X hXXei jXXjX a XXXXXXddkkXi XXXX XXXbX iXXXXX X XXXX XXXXhX XXXeX X XXeXg a XXXXXgXXXXXX XX X eXXXXXXXXXXXbXh Xjj X XXXXXXXXXXXX Xd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,6,1,10,1,10,1,5,5,1,12,4,5,6,1,4,6,5,1,5,1,12,2,1,15,3,1,12,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 0101111111111 11110100101 11101110110 110110110 1110111111 110010101100 110010011010 11011111010 111100100010 11111101101101 1 1110001011 101111100 1110011011 110100110110 1010011111 11101101011 11101001101 11110011101 10011010110 110101011 1 11101101010 1011001010 1101101100 111100110010 1101101111 1100111101 1100101101 1101111011 10111111101 101101111 1 11110011010 010101001110 101110011100 11110110101 100011101 1101111011 1111111110 10101011010 1110101100 111011110110 1 1111110111 110111110 10011010110 0111001010 11111011011 1010100110 1110001011 11011001011 11010100010 11011011110 11101111110 10110001001 110100110111 11110010011 1111001110 11011011010 10110100 10111111 11100100 10011010 111010 111110111111 111101110 1111001101 110101111 1011010111 11011010 1101111 11111010 11111111 10111 01010101 01001110111 0100111111 111011111011 11101110 1111010110 111110111 110100 11101 1001010 1011101 11110110 10111101111100 110001101100 111111100101 0111001011 1111111011 11111111 1 1011110100011 111101111 11011111101 11110110110 11010010110 11111101111 111100101 1111011010 10001011111100 11011011100 111011010100 111001110010 101101111110 1101101011 1 1110001001 11011010 111111101 101110111100 11011011111 110010110010 11111110110 1111001011000 100101101100 10011010100 111100011 1101101111 101110100111 11011011001 1111001100110 110111011111111 11111110010 11100101011 1 10110011101 11111001100 11001111001 111010101100 100010110110 1011011100100 1110011110 11111111110 1111111011 1101111110111 1111111011 10100110111 11101110110 1010011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 30
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 149
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; et, l, d, il, de, es, le, la, des are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word tandis 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 tre, es, e, te, re, pas, ve are repeated).

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

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