This is an analysis of the poem En Marchant La Nuit Dans Un Bois that begins with:

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Il grêle, il pleut. Neige et brume ; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XbXb XXXc Xbbb X XdXe XXXb XeXX X XXXX XXXX XfXf X XgXg dcXc XXXX a XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1111111 1011 010111 10101111 0101010 111010 110111 11110011 1010110 1111110 1111110 1110111 1 1101011 011011 1111110 111111 0110111 1111110 1001101 0101001 100111 11101 110100 1010110 1 1011111 1111111 01001101 10101101 11011 1101010 1100111 1101100 1110010 11111110 0111110 110110 1 011111 01101 101011 1111010 111101 100111 10101 11110 111110 0111110 0101101 11101 1 111010 11101 1111 111010 111011 1011110 1101110 110110 1101011 1110100 1111111 11100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 65
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; il, le, les, et are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words que, le are repeated.

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