This is an analysis of the poem La Couronne Effeuillée that begins with:
J'irai, j'irai porter ma couronne effeuillée
Au jardin de mon père où revit toute fleur ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXaX XXXX aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101011010 11001111011 1101011100 11011011110 101010101110110 11001101111000 11111111110 1100111111000 1101111111 11111111 1111111110110 101101011101 1101101 111110110100 11110111111 11110111110 1111001111111 11011110110 111100111110 11011011011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mon, mes, vous are repeated.
The author used the same word j'irai at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of La Couronne Effeuillée;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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