This is an analysis of the poem A Quoi Songeaient Les Deux Cavaliers ... that begins with:
La nuit était fort noire et la forêt très-sombre.
Hermann à mes côtés me paraissait une ombre. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXab XXbXXX aXXXXX XcXXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111111 1011110011 11010001101 11001100110 110101110110 11101001 111100111110 10101001110 1111001111010 1111001100010 10111111101000 11110111111010 10101011110110 11010010110 0111000101001 1111110010 01111110110111 111111111 1100101101100 11100110011 11010011010 10111011011100 1110111010110 1111011101100 101010010111 111110111101 11111110011 1111101011010 10110011011 1111011 1111011101111 11101111111 111111110100 11110111111 111100111010 11011110011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; la, je, les, qui, ceux, re are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words les, car are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase je connects the lines.
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