This is an analysis of the poem Ô La Splendeur De Notre Joie that begins with:

Ô la splendeur de notre joie
Tissée en or dans l'air de soie!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX XX XXX XXX XXXX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,3,3,4,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100101 1111101 10110111101 10101010 10011110 1100101 010111 1011010010 10101110 1011010 1010110111 0110110 1111011 11000110000 11001011011 111011100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, de are repeated.

    The author used the same word voici at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of Ô La Splendeur De Notre Joie;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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