This is an analysis of the poem Trois Quatrains (Le Casque De Velours) that begins with:

Le casque de velours, qui de plumes s’égaie,
Rabat sur les sourcils les boucles, frondaison...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010101011 101110110100 1111111100 1011101111 110101100 11101011111 1110011111 101011111100 11011011101 11110100001 100111110010 11011010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; les, la are repeated.

    The author used the same word et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Trois Quatrains (Le Casque De Velours);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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