This is an analysis of the poem Une Ruelle De Flandre that begins with:

Dans l'enclos d'un jardin gardé par l'innocence
J'ai vu naître vos fleurs avant votre naissance,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXXXXbXcXXXXXbXXXXX dXXXXXXX XXXaXeXXfXXX XXeeXXXXdXXeXXXX XXXfeeeX XXeX XXfX eecXXcXX eXXXXe XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,20,8,12,16,8,4,4,8,6,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011011100 11111101110 110110101010 1001001110111 111011111011 10111111110 11011001101 11100110010 101100111000 110101101000 111010101101 10111110110 110110110111 11010111011 101101011101 101110111100 110111110100 110101100110 111000100111 1101110110 1001101010 110111100110 101011110010 10111111011 111101111 11111111101 111110111110 11101110111 101101100100 110111111100 111011111010 11101011100111 111001101111 111110100111 1110011110 1010110011 110111110100 11011011011 1110000110010 011111011011 11101101111 1111111111110 11110111101101 11110111010 1011100101000 110111101000 101011110011 10011011111101 1111100010 1000111011 101001110100 10110110010 111100011001 1001101111 11101010011 1011101111110 11101011011 011011110 1101010010 111110111110 11110101101000 100111101010 11111110101 1001111010 1001101101100 11101111100 11001111011 110011110111111 111111011 11010011011 11111001 100100111110 11101010011 10111111111 1111111110111 101110101101111101 111011111 11011011101 1111110001 11010110110 101110111 10010111 1101110110110 01110011000 00111010001 101011110 1111011011 110101101110 11101111110 111110111010 111111111011 11110111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 408
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 92
  • 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; de, nous, re, e, les, qui are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nos, en, de are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Une Ruelle De Flandre;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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