Poem Analysis of Sous Bois by Theodore de Banville for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Sous Bois that begins with:

A travers le bois fauve et radieux,
Récitant des vers sans qu'on les en prie,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
Metre: 010011110 1011110111 11001110 11011101 1101110 111000110 11111 110011101 11100111000 11010111000 1011111101 10110111 111111111 10110111
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
Average number of words per stanza: 26
Amount of lines: 14
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; et, les are repeated.

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Sous Bois by Theodore de Banville: poem analysis

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