This is an analysis of the poem Hymne À La Nuit that begins with:
Le mystère des nuits exalte les coeurs chastes !
Ils y sentent s'ouvrir comme un embrassement...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111101110 111010111000 11100101010 11111110 01001110011 11101111011011 11011001001010 110001111111 10011010011 11110010001 100111111011 1101101110111 01011111 1101111001 1110100101 1000101001111 101110011100 111101001111 11111011101111 110110101010 1011111010 111111101110 101110110010 111010100110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; des, pleurez are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word vous is repeated.
The author used the same word le at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase avec connects the lines.
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- summary of Hymne À La Nuit;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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