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

La boucle des cheveux noirs de ta nuque est mon trésor
Ma pensée te rejoint et la tienne la croise...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXbXXX XXcXXcb aXXcXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,7,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010110111 1111011111 111111011 1101011100101111011 110111011011110 10110011110110110 010100101011111 111110111010111001 110111011 010111100100 010101111110 0101 10001 100011001100 1011001100 1000110110 1100111 111111 01110110111 110111010100111110 100011110 10 1010011001 1000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; la, chat, de, si are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word allongez is repeated.

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

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  • summary of Fusée;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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