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

à Catulle Mendès
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101 110011 11010000 110110 10111010 110110 1010011 110110 1100011 011101 0111 101110 1001111 11111 1011111 1100011 1100110 111011 1110111 10110 1011111 1101111 010110 111011 101110 11111 1111100 11010 111100 1101111 110111 111101 101110 100110 1111100 110110 1011010 11101 1010111 1111 1110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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

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