This is an analysis of the poem Des Fleurs Fines Et Mousseuses Comme L'Écume that begins with:

Des fleurs fines et mousseuses comme l'écume
Poussaient au bord de nos chemins...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaaa XXXX XXbX XXXX XbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110011 10110110 01101110111 11101011 111001110 1111010 11010110110 11001100 1110111010 1111110 10111110111 11110010 111110111100 01011111 1101110110 1111110 111110111 1110111001 1101101101011 11001010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; et, que are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).

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  • summary of Des Fleurs Fines Et Mousseuses Comme L'Écume;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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