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

Un jour je vis s'asseoir au pied de ce grand arbre
Un Pauvre qui posa sur ce vieux banc de marbre...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXaXbXcXXXXXXXXXXXX X dXXXXa XXXXccXXXXXXXX XXeeXXXeXXcfXaaXXXXgXXXc dfXXXbXaXXXX X XXXXXXXc XgXXXaXXXXXXXXaXaaXd XXXXXXXcXXXXXXXXccXhXXXX X XbhhXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,1,6,14,24,12,1,8,20,24,1,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110110111 11110111101 111110100100 1100111111111 11001011101 10011011010 1100111110 10111110111 101100110 1101111111 111010111010 100110100011 1111010111 111111111 10010011010 10101110110 1110110011 11111111011 10100101010110 110110101100 10011011010 110101011111 11101110110 11111101110 1 1111010111 111111011 101011111010 10101010111 111011100010 100010101101 10111010 1001011110 101101110 10111011100 1001010010 0111011010 1110101010 01011111000 0101011110100 1100110010 110011100 111000101111 1111001011 11100111011 1101101110110 101100100110 1101110111001 10100011100 111111011 11100111001 11111101 10111011011 011111111011 10011011011 10111010011 11111110011 110111110010 11010110111 01101110011 101101011111 1000111010 111101111 110101111110 101100111110 10111101 101011111111 1110011110111101 111111100111 111110110111 1101101011 1111100110010 1101111101 110001110 11101111011 11110101010010 1111011110110 1011111011011 101101111111 101011011110 111101011111101 1 111111101111110 11110101100100 1111011100 10010111010 111010100 111011110010 1101111110 1101011101 1100101111010 1101001110100 11010101100 11111111100 0111111110 111010110011 110100111110 110110111 1101010111010 010100110110 11110001010 110101011 11100110011 111110111001 111011111011 101111100011 11111011111 11111101111001 110011111011100 110110111101 011101100100 110010101000 110110110011 1101010111101 11001001101 110111101 11111011000 1001110101 01111011101010 11111111111 11111111111 10111111011 1111111110111 11110111101 1101011111 111011101 1001100110011 111011011011 1110111101000 110111101100 111011111 1011001010 1111011010 11101100101 1 011010111 11001110111 11100111111 11101111001 111101110110 110101101100 10110010010 11111100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 550
  • Average number of words per stanza: 101
  • Amount of lines: 144
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, et, me, je, la are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words un, de, je, pourquoi, et, ni are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es, e, tes, ve, vue are repeated).

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

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