This is an analysis of the poem Au Point Du Jour, Souvent En Sursaut, Je Me Lève that begins with:
Au point du jour, souvent en sursaut, je me lève,
Éveillé par l'aurore, ou par la fin d'un rêve, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101101101111 1110111111 111110111101 11111110111101 110101101100 111110110110 101110111 11101010011 111111111 1111011011 111100011101 110111011 111011101000 1001101111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 668
- Average number of words per stanza: 128
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; par, ou, me are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ve, tre are repeated).
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