Poem Analysis of Boaz Asleep by Victor Marie Hugo for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Boaz Asleep that begins with:

Boaz, overcome with weariness, by torchlight
made his pallet on the threshing floor ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: XXaa XbcX cabd Xeee XddXXbcea
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 101010100110 101010101 1111111111 010100101 011110110 11111111110 1110010001 1110010100001 01110101010 111010101 1101110111 1110011100 0111000110 1010101111 0110011011 01011111010 100110101110 1110011001011 100110111010 1010011110 1111001111 01000011010 111010111 0101010111
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
Average number of words per stanza: 32
Amount of lines: 24
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.

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Boaz Asleep by Victor Marie Hugo: poem analysis

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