This is an analysis of the poem Souvenirs D'Avril that begins with:

Le rhythme argentin de ta voix
Dans mes rêves gazouille et tinte....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXXX XXbb XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 01100011 1111011 11010111 110111 11111010 1110100 11111110 11101000 10011011 1001110 11110101 111100 1111110 1001000 1010111 11101101 11101100 10110 100100 0100001 1110111 101101000 01010011 111010 1011011 1011010 101011 11011010 1011110 1111100 1110111 100111 1110101 10010 11111110 1100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.

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  • summary of Souvenirs D'Avril;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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