This is an analysis of the poem Promenade À Seize Ans that begins with:
La terre souriait au ciel bleu. L'herbe verte
De gouttes de rosée était encor couverte....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXaXbccXXXXXbddXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011111 0100111110 110101101111 111111110 1011011111101 11010011111 010100111111110 11011110101 111011110111 0111011101 10100110100 11101111110 101011100101 11111111101011 10110101011 110100110001 111110111 100110111111 1011001100 11111011110 10110111100 1100111110100 1110011100 10111011011 101110111111 111101101101 1010101101011 111110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1334
- Average number of words per stanza: 237
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; nous, les, que are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tre is repeated).
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