This is an analysis of the poem C'Était En Juin, Dans Le Jardin that begins with:

C'était en juin, dans le jardin,
C'était notre heure et notre jour ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXX XXXXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010 11011101 111100101110 110 10110110010 11101110 110 0111110110110 11001110 10111111 111111 11101011 1010011101110 11111011110 1101101100 111101010100 11011010 1111110000 11111011 10101001011 1001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nous, et are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words c', et are repeated.

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  • summary of C'Était En Juin, Dans Le Jardin;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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