This is an analysis of the poem La Glycine Est Fanée Et Morte Est L'Aubépine that begins with:

La glycine est fanée et morte est l'aubépine ;
Mais voici la saison de la bruyère en fleur ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XAXX XXXX XXXX XbXb XXXX XccX XcXX bXXc XAXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110011110110 11011001111 11111111011 1010101110 1110111011 110111110111 1111110101111 1011010110111 1101011011 011111011111 10011110011 10011101111 11111101101110 111011111100 111011100111 101110011111 1011011110 10110111010 11111111111 1111011110 1111011010 11001111100 1110111010 11011011010 01101111110 1101111111 1111111111 1101001011001 1100101111001 11011111111 10100101110 110101101011111 110011110110 11011001111 10011111111 10010101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; la, et, le, de, sa, plus, son, nous 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 La Glycine Est Fanée Et Morte Est L'Aubépine;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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