This is an analysis of the poem L'Archet that begins with:

Elle avait de beaux cheveux, blonds
Comme une moisson d’août, si longs...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aAA XXX bbX XXX XXX aaX XXX XXX XaX ccX XXX XddXaAA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001101 1110111 110101010 110111 1000111 1111111 1011101010 11100111 11001110 1111011 10111 10111110 10111111 1111010 110111010 111100010 111010110 110110100 11111010 1101011 11100110 1110110 111001 111001 11010010 0101111 10111110 0111110 1011111 11001101 1111110 111110 100010100 110110 1100110 1111011 1101101 1110111 110101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 96
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • 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; e is repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of L'Archet;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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