This is an analysis of the poem Ecole Buissonnière that begins with:

Ma pensée est une églantine
Eclose trop tôt en avril,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XAXXaXXA XXbXXXXX XXXXXXXX BXXBXbBX XXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101110 1011110 10110010 1101110 11010110 110110 1101110 1011110 11011110 10111100 11111010 11011110 11010010 1111001 11011110 10111100 1101110 111110 11111110 1101110 1101011 1011111 1101110 111110 1101110 111101 10101100 1101110 111110 111010 1101110 111101 1101111 1111101 1101110 1101111 11010111 11101 1101111 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; un, e, les are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ma is repeated.

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

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  • summary of Ecole Buissonnière;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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