This is an analysis of the poem La Valse that begins with:
Dans un flot de gaze et de soie,
Couples pâles, silencieux,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXXX XXXXX XXXX XXXXX XXXX XXXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,4,5,4,5,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101101 101100 11010011 1101011 1010111 1111110111110 1111011111 0111100110100 01111 1110111 11001010 11110111 111110 1111010 1111110111110 1111011111 0111100110100 01111 0111110 111111101 11111111 1111010 110111110 1111110111110 1111011111 0111100110100 01111 100111111010 110111 1101110110 1110100 11101100 1111110111110 1111011111 0111100110100 01111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words c'est, le, et, les are repeated.
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- summary of La Valse;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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