This is an analysis of the poem La Naissance Du « Philistin » that begins with:
Le Soleil se leva, ce matin-là, si terne,
Que l’on eût dit un « bren » au fond d’une citerne....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXaXbcXXXXXXbXXXXXXXbcXXXXXdXXXX XXaXXXXXXX XXXXdXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,10,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011110110111 11111111110 1111111111 1011111110 11001111111 11011001000 11001101011 111011111 1111101011 111001110 11101110010 1111101110 10110111101 11001101 1111101111111 1111010110110 01011101000 11111001 0110011111100 0110011010 11111001110 11101101011 011111011101 111001100100 11110011111 1010100110 111100111010 1110111001001 1001110110110 10101010110 1101110111 1111001110 111101110110 111010101110 1011001111 1101110111 111111011111 1110111111 10110011111 111001110 111110101010 1111010011001 11010110110 11111101100 10010111010 101110011010 1110010101 110101111010 0111101101111 1011111101 110111110010 110111111100 1101011101 10111111011 10110110100 1110001100 01010111101 11111100010 10111000111 010010100111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 932
- Average number of words per stanza: 181
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; un, le, l, des, est, d, pourquoi are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words le, les, et are repeated.
The author used the same word et 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 es, re are repeated).
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