This is an analysis of the poem L'Abeille that begins with:

Comme l’abeille fugitive
Qui fait son miel en voyageant ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXaXXXXXXXaXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,16,8,6,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110100 11111100 01000111 11001100 110111 110011 110110 11110 11110101 1111100 11110111 10011100 11110111 1110110 1110110 11110 111000100 11111110 11101110 1001010 1110110 11011011 110110 11110 01111100 111111 1111100 111111 11001110 1111110 110110 11110 101010011 1011100 1010100 11010011 11111 1101111 110110 11110 11101100 11111110 1111111 11010001 11111110 11110011 110110 11110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; vole is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word vole is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word toujours at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of L'Abeille;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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