This is an analysis of the poem La Joie that begins with:
Oh ces larges beaux jours dont les matins flamboient !
La terre ardente et fière est plus superbe encor ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc XXXXXX aaXXdX XXXX XXbXXX XXXa XXXXXd XaXXXd XXXXXbXcXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,6,4,6,4,6,6,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011111010 11101100111011 11110111011 11111110111 1010011 111111111 111110110110 111101001001 111101101110 101101111010 1001011 111011011 1101111110100 11111111010 010011111111 110111111110 1110011011 10111111100 10101110110 101101011 01111101101 1111101110110 1110101111 111110111110 11111001111 110011 10111110111 10110101001 11011111110 1100111111101 1110001111110 11111110111111 1010101111 10100111110 1101011111 110011111011 11111101101 011001100011 1110101101 111101111110 1111111011 11111111111 1110101010110 1111011100 111110110011 11111111111110 11101011111 1110111110 1111111110 11110001 1111100011 101111101000 10110111101 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 54
- 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; et, la, des, de, en, te are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
The author used the same word soyez at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of La Joie;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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