This is an analysis of the poem Invocation that begins with:
Enfant blonde aux doux yeux, ô rose de Norvège,
Qu'un jour j'ai rencontrée aux bords du bleu Léman,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX aXa XXX XXa XXX XXX XXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111101 10111011011 1011011001 111111111010110 11111101111 100110101100 1110111101 1101010011100 1010000111 1001110100100 111111110101 101110111111 01101011010 111110110110 111110110011 11111111011 1101111 1111010111110 111111111111 110111011110 1011111011 111111011110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 22
- 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; de, et, que are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word je is 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 Invocation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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