This is an analysis of the poem Est-Il Jour? Est-Il Nuit ? Horreur Crépusculaire! that begins with:

Est-il jour ? Est-il nuit ? horreur crépusculaire !
Toute l'ombre est livrée à l'immense colère. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXaaXXXXXXXXX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111011110100 11011101 101111110 010101111 10101111101110 010100011010 110110010110 110111110110 1100101001110 11011101100 111111100 1110111110 01101011110 11011110 110000101110 111011100110 1011101111 1111001100 0110111110 11011111 10010111101 10101011011010 1110101110011 1010101011110 11101101110 111011111111 1111111111111111 111111010 1110101101 101111011 111111110011 110010110101 110101011011 1111011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 852
  • Average number of words per stanza: 148
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; est, un, on, le, les, pris, ont, la, de are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rien is repeated).

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