This is an analysis of Avenir by Charles Cros.

Les coquelicots noirs et les bleuets fanés
Dans le foin capiteux qui réjouit l’étable,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbX abXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,3,3,
  • Metre: 1100011111 101100111 1111110100 011111010 110011110101 01001110110 110010111100 11110011111 111111001111 11010111010 01011010111 1010110111 111110110110 110111110
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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