This is an analysis of the poem Croquis Breton that begins with:

La mystique Bretagne est une bonne vieille
Dont la candeur enchante et la grâce émerveille....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaXXXXXbXXccXXdXXXXX X XXbXXefXXXggXXhXg X eXXXXXXXXXXX X XXXgiXXXXXjX d XXXXXXXXgXXXbXXXga d bXaXXXXXXkXaXl X XXXXXXjXkXlXXX X aXXXdfXkXXXXXXii X XlmXXXaXbXXXXXXX g XXXddXXXggXXXXkXbb d XXckXXXgXXXhXX X XXXXXXXXXXXcXdml X XkbXXXbXXhXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,1,17,1,12,1,12,1,18,1,14,1,14,1,16,1,16,1,18,1,14,1,16,1,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011001111 11101011110 10111100111 010010111 11101111100 10110110110 10110100010 01011010100 111011110 1011110011 111111100110 1111111101 111111100111 111010011111 1110011100 11010011111 111111101 111001111 11011110100 11010111110 11100101101 1101111101 1 11111011100 101110110110 111111101010 1101101010 10101011011 1101011111 11010111111 111111111111110 1110010111011 100111111 010111010110 10111111011 10111111111100 11110111010 1110110111011 011111111011010 1110111111 1 1101110111101 111010101 11101110110 11010111011 10100101010 101110111001 1111111110 11111110110 101011100100 1101111010 101110111 11101111101 1 1110110101011 111111011100 11111101110 11111111 1111101111 110101110 1111101011 1111011110 11000111101 110111110111 10110011101010 111010110 1 1110101011010 1001111101100 0101110110 100110011010 10010101010 101111100 1100111111100 1011110100 110110010101 11111111010 100110111110 110101101101 1010101111101 1011011010 10001110110 11101101101 11100101101 11011111111 1 11101110110 01001010100 11010111101 1111011110010 1110000110 1001010110110 011101001101 1111111100 1011111110 111110111111 11111100100 101101111111 110011010 110111111 1 101110111 111011110100 11101001010 10111111101 011010101011 1011010110 111011001 1101111110 1110111101 01111010110 1011111101 101110111110101 1011111111110 10111011100 1 1111100111 11011111011 10111110110 111110111100 1111111101 110101100111 1010111110110 101001111 1101010100 10110111101 101001101 10110111111 1100111111001 111101111111 1111111101010 101111110110 1 11111101111110 110110101101 111011110 01111011110100 111111111000 111101101100 101011110101 10111011110 111100111111 11111001101110 0111111101 11011111011 111010110100010 110101111110 10101011110 111010101111 1 11010111010 110111110011 0111111011 101111011101 11111110001 11111111100 11110100111 1101111101 1011100111101 11101110010 110011111111 0110111111 1100011010 1101110110 10111110011 111100111110 11111110101 111011010110 1 010111011 010110010110 010110011101 111110111100 11111111110 11011110 11111111110 1101101010 1110101110 10111001110 11010111100 10100110011 110111111 11011001110 1 1101001011 1110101110 01111111000 111110110111000 110110001111 110110101100 10110111111110 1100110110110 1010011111 1111011101 101111111100 101111101011 1110110011 1010101111 110100111010 111001110111 1 111100111110 11111111111 111111111 11110110 111101101011 11011100111 111110111110 11111100100 111111111110 1110111101111 11110111101 110100011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 381
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 225
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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, la, le, d, l, des, fleurs, re, ne, m, elle, tout, sans, et, roses, du, je, vous, il, les, en, qui, voil, te, nous are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words qu, que, un, la, elle, roses, il, voil, francine, celle are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, chante, te, s, me, e, ve are repeated).

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  • summary of Croquis Breton;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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