This is an analysis of the poem La Lys that begins with:
Lys tranquille, Lys douce et lente
Dont le vent berce, aux bords, les herbes et les plantes, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaX XbaaX XcXXdXdXXbaXXXX XXXXXX XXXcXX XXXdXX XXXXXXXX cXXXXXXb bXXXXa eXec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,15,6,6,6,8,8,6,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111 1011111101110 110011111011 011110 111011011 11 11101100 110111 1010110 11101001 1110110 11111111010 111101111101 101011 11011110 111011101111 111001 101110101 11001111 110011000 101011001001 111011100111 1100101110 1 101111001 111 1110100011110 111110111 1111101111 110111111100 10111101101 11011100110 10101010111 01111011110 1111011010 1010100101011 1000111111110 01001110101 1101100 110111111110 1101111011 111110110111 11011001110 11001000 111111101110 101111111111 110100011 1111101111 11101001110 1101100111110 1111011111 111110101 1110111101 110010111100 111011111110 010011110100 11000111011 100111101111 10011110110 11011011101 1111110101101 111111100 11011010110 11111010011 11100110111 10110011110 1011101011 11101011110 11110011110 11010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; et, les, vos, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, vous are repeated.
The author used the same word et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of La Lys;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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