This is an analysis of the poem La Chevelure (Her Hair) that begins with:
Ô toison, moutonnant jusque sur l'encolure!
Ô boucles! Ô parfum chargé de nonchaloir!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXbXX XXXXX XXXXa a cbdae fddgh ijkhb giXld ijmXi ckccA ncijl X a hchhc kkhhk kkckc cXciX ihiih dadda boobo p b aXaab jjjjj knkkn cdccd cnccn daXda jcXjc n a lalla Xdbbd mcmmc ndnnd bjbbj dgddg ilial g a gbcbe fdpgd qdkhb cig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,1,1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,1,1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,1,1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,1,1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,1,5,5,5,5,5,5,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010011100 101010100 1011011101 11011011100 1111100111110 1100111110 111101011 11110011000 11010101110 0111011110 10111111101 111100110110 1010101111 110111101 01010010101 11100011111 11010011110 111010111111 101101110011 111111010 111001110010 11110110110 110110101010 101100110 10010001010 1011000110 111010010111 1111001110 1110100110100 01011011010 10101111101 10010111010 101111111101 111101111111 111111010101 101 110110010010 111101100101 100010011101 010010011101 111010001101 100100110010 011011101101 1011101010 110101101010 1111101101 111111111010 110011101001 10100010110101 10011101001 010010010101 010010111011 011001011010 101010101101 101111001010 0011100010101 111011010010 001110100010 111010011010 011101110100 1010011010 1110101011 111010100111 001010011010 110011001010 0101010111 011010110111 0101001011 1110100101010 1010010011101 011110010100 010110100 01 1111011111 1111010111 1100010101 0100010001 1101010101 1100110101 1101011101 0111010111 1101110101 1100111101 1101111111 10111100111 110001011 1111110111 0101110111 01010111010 01110011110 11111111010 11111001010 01010101010 11110011010 0011011001 110101001110 1001000110 0101001111 1101011101 1101010111 0101010111 1111000101 0101010111 1101001111 10111100101 11010100101 0100111101 1101010001 0101110 01 1100111110111 110110101000 110001010111 0100010011001 110100110111 100100010101 010001110111 0101100011001 111101111011 010101011101 110101110111 11010100100101 100101111101 11010010101001 1011110100111 100101010101 100101011101 11010101101 010110010001 0111010010001 001101010101 100101001111 10110010010111 011101000111 100101111111 111011001011 0101110001001 1100111111001 100001010101 011101100111 1101010111011 01110010100111 0111011101000 0101011101011 101101110101 0101110 001 111001011100 111011010111 0101010010100 011101110100 110101010001 100100110100 011101101111 101101101100 110101000100 111111011101 111111110101 1101010101010 110001011101 1001110010101 010101010111 010101110111 111100011011 110101011111 101111011001 001110000101 111111100100 0011010101110 111101010001 111101110100 11100111001010 111110011111 111101110111 110101001101 011111101101 110101001111 1001011111010 010111111100 1111011101010 110101011101 011111010100 0101110 0101 1110001 11110100 1000100100110 01001110011 111000110100 10010110100 01110101101 1001010110 1101101110 111111111 1111011111101 101100010010 11100111011 1111010001001 011100111 0010101011 11110101110 1110011101 1111001010 001110000101 11111010100 00011010100010 11101001101 011011110100 011001001010 1110110 1101001111111 10101001101 1100111010100 010110111 1011110011101 110101011100 01110101010 1111001011101 101111010100 01011010 1111011001 1110110111 1100010111 0100101101 1110110001 1001010100 1011011110 0111010101 1101110101 1111110111 1111110111 111001001010 1100011101 110111010 01001010111 0111010101 1101101111 1101010111 1011111101 01011100100 11110100010 0011010101 11010101010 00110011010 11010010001 01001010101 1111010001 11010111001 1101011101 0101010111 0111111011 01010100110 11010101010 10101111101 0110010100 01010100
- Amount of stanzas: 60
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 264
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; la, de, o, of, and, for, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, a, where are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ve is repeated).
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- summary of La Chevelure (Her Hair);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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