This is an analysis of the poem L'Aurore Boréale that begins with:
La nuit d'hiver étend son aile diaphane
Sur l'immobilité morne de la savane...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXXXXXXXXaXbb XXXXXXXXXcX XXXXXdXXXXXXXddXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXcXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,11,27,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011110 1100010110 11010101000 11100111100 10010111111 1101101110 10111111101 1110110111 10101110011 1101011101 1011110100 1101111101110 0010101100010 111101111110 1010011101111 11001001110 110110010010 011101101 11101010101 1111110 1110111010 1001101110100 10001011011 1100011001 1011011110 111110111101 11101010111 100100101001 10111111110 101010110010 1100011111 100111110 111001010100 011111010100 010110101011 11111010001 1011110010 101101011 010101101 111001101 1110001110100 1001000101000 011111111011 11110101101 110111011000 11110110100 111100110010 010110100110 11001111 100110111 101010100110 11000010100 11010101010 111110110 11010110110 110100110101 11110101 11101111010 110001101110 1111111001 11101101101 110101010 1000110110 111011110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 726
- Average number of words per stanza: 129
- Amount of lines: 64
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, dans, le, de, et, s, un, pour are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines s, clair, res, e, toiles are repeated).
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- summary of L'Aurore Boréale;
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- idea of the verse;
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