This is an analysis of the poem Les Jardins that begins with:

Secrets observateurs, leur studieuse main
En des vases d'argile et de verre et d'airain...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010001101 111010101110 101101110100 111110111100 10010010010 10101011100 10110110010 0111001100110 0101100111 10111011110 11111111 111011110 111001111010 01010101100 101011101010 1001110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 740
  • Average number of words per stanza: 131
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • 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; leurs, et, les, s are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines s, le are repeated).

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  • summary of Les Jardins;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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