This is an analysis of the poem Le Mauvais Jardinier that begins with:

Dans les jardins d'hiver des fleuristes bizarres
Sèment furtivement des végétaux haineux,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX XXa XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1110101100100 110001110 1110110111 11010011111 1100011000110 110011011000 1010101101 11101110100 110011011 1111101111 1011101101101 111111010010 11101111110 111010110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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; des, les, leurs are repeated.

    The author used the same word leurs at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Le Mauvais Jardinier;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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