This is an analysis of the poem A La Sante that begins with:

Allons, muse rustique, enfant de la nature,
Détache ces cheveux, ceins ton front de verdure,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110110110 1110111010 10110110110 10100111010 11100110 01011101010 10111011010 101101110 11101011010 1111111110 10111111110 101110111110 10111011100 1111111110 11011001011 11010100011 01011101010 111011011 11011111111 10111111111 110111110 11111111101100 110110101010 11101110011 100111110 10111011011 11011100110 111110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 665
  • Average number of words per stanza: 123
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; de, les, et, ni are repeated.

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  • summary of A La Sante;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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