This is an analysis of the poem Les Saltimbanques that begins with:
Dans la plaine les baladins
S'éloignent au long des jardins...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111100 1011110 101110010 11100110 11101110 1101011 1110111 101111011 1111111 1101101 110110010 10111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 393
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; des is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines signe, s are repeated).
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- summary of Les Saltimbanques;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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