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

La fée Oriande vivait dans son château de Rose-Fleur
C'est ici quand ce fut le déclin du printemps l'édification des Roses...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbabXaXbcaddccefXeeXXXfbXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010111011 110111010101000110 1011111010111011101 111 10111001101 111100 10110111011 11111110 1101110 1100111011010 11001001100100011 110111 11 111110111 1110001001 110111 11 1101111111 110111 1011 0111101110 11110110110 1101 101101 01110111 1010 110110 11101011 1011110 1010111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1056
  • Average number of words per stanza: 216
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; d'un, bleu, en are repeated.

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

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