This is an analysis of the poem Souvenir Des Flandres that begins with:
J'ai goûté sur la dune où Dante a dû passer
Les couchants langoureux des pensives Zélandes ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX aXXXXXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX X XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,4,4,4,8,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111100110 110100110010 110100011111 10110111010 10110010110 100111101110 11110111011 11111001110101 1111100110101 110110111001 1101011010 11111110111 110010100100 10110010100 100010111010 1110111011 1101010110 111101110111 110010111000 100100110110 101111001110 11111100110 1111001110110 110100110010 10011101100 1110101011000 10101001010 1101101101 111010101100 1101011010 111110100110 11011111011 10110 11001011110 1101111101100 1100110110100 010010101100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; les, nous, et, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words les, qui, nous are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines landes is repeated).
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- summary of Souvenir Des Flandres;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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