This is an analysis of the poem De La Terre Au Ciel that begins with:

Un rayon de soleil se brise
Sur la branche et sur les buissons. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXbX aXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110001111 11111110 11101111 1001110 100111 11010110 101001 010101100 1001110 1101100 1010010 1111110 1001111 1110110 10010110 1111011 1001110 11111 101001 1101111 1001110 111011 100110 1101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de is repeated.

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

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  • summary of De La Terre Au Ciel;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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