This is an analysis of the poem L'Azur that begins with:

De l'éternel Azur la sereine ironie
Accable, belle indolemment comme les fleurs, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXaX XbXX bXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101011010 1011000111 0110011011 010111010 101111101110 10100110100 1111111110 10101011110 1001101101000 10011001111 110011101100 1101110100 111111110 11101111110 101011011101 11111110110 11111110100 10110111010 10110011010 00111101100 010111110110 1001010101 011011100110 1011011011 1111101101 10101101111 11110011001 10001011110 1110011111011 1110111111111 111101011 10110111100 1111110110 110101010110 11111100101 111110101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, et, l'azur are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, le are repeated.

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  • summary of L'Azur;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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