This is an analysis of the poem Ma Muse Fuit Les Champs that begins with:

Ma Muse fuit les champs abreuvés de carnage,
Et ses pieds innocents ne se poseront pas...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110010 11110011111001 1111110111 11101011100 1110101101100 101110111010 10011001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 7
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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.

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  • summary of Ma Muse Fuit Les Champs;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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