This is an analysis of the poem Me Voilà Revenu De Ce Voyage Sombre that begins with:

Me voilà revenu de ce voyage sombre,
Où l'on n'a pour flambeaux et pour astre dans l'ombre...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXab XXcXXX dXXXXX XXXXXc XXbXXb XXXXbX XXXXXc XXbdXb aXXXXX XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110001101 11111011111 111010 11111010011 11011111001 1111001 1110001110 1110111111100 01111 110101110 1111011101 111011 11111111110 111101100010 1111 110111101 1101011111 111101 11111111101111 11110111111 1111101 11110111010 0101010010 1111010 11111111111011 11111111111 10110 111110101110 1111010110 11001 11111111 101111100111 11101 111111110 10110111111 1111111 111111110110 11010111100110 1110011 111011110100 101111111101 111011 1111000110111 1110101011000 111110 11110110110 101011101110 110111 11111110010 1110010111 1101 1101101001 1111011110 11011 111011010111 11001011101 110111 011100011010 111011010110 10101 1110011110 11110110 11110 11111111010110 11111110111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 65
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; mon, elle, que, je are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words elle, je, la are repeated.

    The author used the same words me, je, ne 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, s are repeated).

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