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

Bordeaux, paradis de mes anges,
Olympe de mes dieux, Bordeaux,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XAXBXXXXXX XXcXXXXXdb XXXXXXXXXX XeXXfXXgXX XXXXXXbXXb XXXbXcXXXX XXfXXXgdcX eXXXXXXXbf XAXBXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010100110 1001101 10110110 1101011 10110101 1110111 10110110 111110100 110111100 11111011 1010111011 110110 1101101111 111111 111101 11101 1001011 11111 01100101 1110111 1110111 11101101 1101111 1010100 11010110 111010 101011 110111100 111101 1110110 1101101 101011100 11111010 110111 111011 111010 1110110 110111111 110110 1110010 111101 01111110 11101010 11110111 101111 1100101 10011111 100111 10101110 111111 0111110 111111110 11110111 11110110 11110111 10101111 1111110 101100100 11111110 1010011 1111110 11100 11111 1101111 11110010 1111111 1111011 11011001 1110011 11111010 1111110 1010111 11111010 101111 1011100 1111100 111111110 101110 10111111 1011111 010100110 1001101 10110110 1101011 10110101 1110111 10110110 1110110100 110111100 11111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 90
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; j, toujours are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words rouge, c, toujours are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ve is repeated).

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

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