This is an analysis of the poem Halte En Marchant that begins with:

Une brume couvrait l'horizon ; maintenant,
Voici le clair midi qui surgit rayonnant ; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXaXXXXXXaXXXXXbXXXXcXXXXXXaXdcc XcXXXXXXXXXXbbXXXXXXXdXaeXXe XXXXffXXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,28,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110100100 100110110100 00111101101110 111001101100 010110110111 010110110111 11110011110 01100011001 110111101110 11000110100 111110010101 1111011111100 101011100111 10111110110 10100110111 111011101000 1101110111101 1111010111 101010101111 1111110111110 110111111101 111111111100 1100001111 011 111111011 011011001101 11111010111 101100110010 10101011101 110010100100 1101110100 111011101010 10111001110010 11001011010 010111100111 11010101 1111011001 11010010101 11111011011 11110011010 01011011110 111110111010 10101101101 0111111011 110101110 1111111101 010111010 1011111011111 10111100101010 110111011 101111011101 11111111011 101010111 1111100110100 1010101010 1010111101000 111110110100 1111110101011 01010011011 01010101101110 11101111 1110111111010 1100011101110 11010101111 1101101011111 1011111110 111111101110 1000111011 0101000111 1111110110 11011111110 1111011111 1101011011 1011111110 10110111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1229
  • Average number of words per stanza: 215
  • Amount of lines: 75
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; les, un, des, et, de, la are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es, che, e, bres are repeated).

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  • summary of Halte En Marchant;
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