This is an analysis of the poem Fleur Fatale that begins with:

L'absurdité grandit comme une fleur fatale
Dans le terreau des sens, des coeurs et des cerveaux ; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001011110 101011111110 111011110010 1110101110010 111101111110 1110011110100 111101001000 1100110110 111111011 11011011101 100110110110 111111111010 101101011 11110110010 100110111 011011111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; des, et, ses, de, un are repeated.

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

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

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