Poem Analysis of Ritournelle by François Coppée for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Ritournelle that begins with:

Dans la plaine blonde et sous les allées,
Pour mieux faire accueil au doux messidor, ...

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Rhyme scheme: aXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11111111 1111011100 110101101 1111111001 1110011100 1110111110 1110110100 1011101110 101111110 101101110 1110010100 1101111011 110101010 101111110 11101111 1101111110
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
Average number of words per stanza: 30
Amount of lines: 16
Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
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; les, et, plus are repeated.

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Ritournelle by François Coppée: poem analysis

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