This is an analysis of the poem Abîme - La Voie Lactée that begins with:
Millions, millions, et millions d'étoiles !
Je suis, dans l'ombre affreuse et sous les sacrés voiles,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXaaXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXX X aXXXXXbXXXXX X X X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,1,12,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011010 111111011111 110111010 111110111110 10010111100 111101100100 110101111 1110111111101 1111000101000 111010111110 11011101101 1010111111 111011110 111011110 1110011110 110111111101 10101010010 100100111110 1110110010 1110011110 1100100110010 11100111111 10101011000 1111011101 11011111110 110110111011 101110111 110101110 11011010 1011001110 11111001010 111010110100 110011011 1011010101 1011101100 11101111000 1100 0111011010110 0110011111100 1111100111110 110110011010 1111111011 10101111010 1011101110 111010110 110011101011 101111011 10111110100 111010100 100 1100111101 1 1110110111001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; millions, et, des, de, autant, dans, chaque, t, vous, le are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words que, pour, et, a are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines res, bres, al, ves are repeated).
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