This is an analysis of the poem Clair De Lune (Moonlight On The Bosphorus) that begins with:
La lune était sereine et jouait sur les flots. -
La fenêtre enfin libre est ouverte à la brise,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXaX bXXb XXXX XXXX X Cddc beXb fgXf XhheXgddC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011111 11101011011 110101111111 1111101111 0111101110 111111111 01111101111101 10100101110 11110011011 110111110111 011111111111 1111111011 1101011101110 1011001111 11100110110 0110101110110 111110110110 11011011111 111011111110 1111011111 1110100 1101011101001 1011000010111 101001010101 0101001110101 001101100101 110111110111 000101010011 01110101101 000100111111 1011110010101 0011001010111 1001011100101 11010110100 111100110101 111101110101 010101010101 110111110101 111101010111 101101110101 1101011101001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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, de, qui, tour, ni, du, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words la, ni, 'tis are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines brise is repeated).
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