This is an analysis of the poem Enfance that begins with:
Au jardin des cyprès je filais en rêvant,
Suivant longtemps des yeux les flocons que le vent...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111011 101011110101 1011011111 1001010110110 11101110110 110010111011 11101111100 11111111100 1110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 430
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; les is repeated.
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- summary of Enfance;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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