This is an analysis of the poem A Travers La Forêt Des Spontanéités… that begins with:

A travers la forêt des spontanéités,
Écartant les taillis, courant par les clairières....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa aXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 010111100 101101011100 110111110000 10101011101 101010110 1101101101000 1100111110110 01101011101 1111101111 11100001010 1111011011 101011111000 10111111011 111000100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; des, vous are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word s at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of A Travers La Forêt Des Spontanéités…;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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