Poem Analysis of Pluie by Theophile Gautier for close reading

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

Ce nuage est bien noir : - sur le ciel il se roule,
Comme sur les galets de la côte une houle....

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Rhyme scheme: XabbccXXXXaXXXbXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXddXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1101111011111 1111001111 1001011011 001101110111 11100101101 111110110011 1111011011111 1111011111 1011111110 1011110101 01001010101 1001010111 1100101101010 111101111010 10011111010 1101111101 1100101101000 101111010100 1110111101 11011010001 10111101000 1001101111100 10110101101 1011011101 100010101010 10011101010 1010011111 1111011110 0011111110111 11110111010 1101111101111 111111110111 10111011011010 111011111011 111101110 1110111100 110100101100 11001100101 1110101011010 0101111010 1101011110111 1011011111 10101100101 1101011011
Amount of stanzas: 1
Average number of symbols per stanza: 2094
Average number of words per stanza: 389
Amount of lines: 44
Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; la, les, s, de, et are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines pas, s, glace are repeated).

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Pluie by Theophile Gautier: poem analysis

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