This is an analysis of the poem Tournesol that begins with:
La voyageuse qui traverse les Halles à la tombée de l'été
Marchait sur la pointe des pieds...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXaXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100110110101100010000 1011111 0100001011111011 1101101111011011001 110100011001 11011100001110 1111 1101001101 1111110101111101 1011101010000100 1011111111100100 11010110011100 1111100010111 1101110100011100 11000110001010 110100110010 11101101110 10001010110000100 11100001110 11100010111100 11011100111011100 11001011100011100 1111111010 1110110110110 111000 11111011010100 1100101101110010 1110001111001 11001111000 10010011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1589
- Average number of words per stanza: 265
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- 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; la, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word les is repeated.
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- summary of Tournesol;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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