This is an analysis of the poem Sur Un Éventail that begins with:
J’écris ici ces vers pour que, le soir, songeant
A tous les rêves bleus que font les demoiselles,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XaXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11011110110 011111111000 110111100110 10011111011 111011011100 11100111101 111001110 1100101101000 11110101110 1001101101 1110111110 111101101110 1100111010 1100111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, vous are repeated.
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- summary of Sur Un Éventail;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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