This is an analysis of the poem Lilas that begins with:
Ma maîtresse me fait des scènes.
Paradis fleuri de lilas...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX XXa XXXXXb bab X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,6,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111 01011010 1111011010 1100101 11101110 11001011 10101101 1101011 01110 110110 11010010 10111110 11110011 10110111111 111011111 11110110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; de is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word les is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase las connects the lines.
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- summary of Lilas;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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