This is an analysis of the poem Transition that begins with:

Le vent, tiède éclaireur de l’assaut du printemps,
Soulève un brouillard vert de bourgeons dans les branches....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01110010010 110110101110 111001011110 1111011111010 10011001111 1111001110 11010101010 111010111110 1111001101 110101101011 111110110 1111010100 10110101100 101010110 1101111110 111111000 1101000110 11111010101 11110011110 101101110111 111011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 336
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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  • summary of Transition;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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