This is an analysis of the poem Adieu Aux Bois that begins with:

Bois où je voudrais vivre, il faut vous dire adieu !
Depuis l'aube égayant les moissons ondoyantes, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: A XXX XXb cXb XXX XXX XXX XXX XXb XXX XcX XXX XXX XXX XXXXA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111011111001 101101101000 1000111100100 11010011101 11111101011 101001111 11110011001 1111110110010 1111010110 10111111001 11111101110001 110010110111 1111011110 0111100100011 0010111110011 100111100001 1111110110011 11111101 1101111111 11111111 101010101001 11101111 101001001 1011011011 10010110001 1001101101100 10111110100 010110111001 1001111010 101111110 10111111111 1111000110 100010011010 10111010110 10011001011 110110110011 101110110011 11010111111 10100111011 1111001110000 0111101101 11010011111 10111010101 11111011111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • 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:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; j'ai, vu, la, le are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word j'ai at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines res, andre, me are repeated).

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  • summary of Adieu Aux Bois;
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