This is an analysis of the poem Ballade De La Convenance De Se Déshabiller Au Printemps that begins with:
La Seine, clair ciel à l'envers,
S'ensoleille comme le Tage !...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXB XaXXXXXB XXXXXXXB X XXXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 100101 111101 11111100 111010 1101111111 1111101001 1111110 111110 1101111 10100110 110110110 1111100 110010110 11110100 1111110 10111100 0110111 011111 11011100 10101000 11001010 11101000 1111110 10 111100 1111110 01010100 1111110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; le is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word le is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word avril at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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