This is an analysis of the poem Les Jardins that begins with:

...Désirez-vous un lieu propice à vos travaux ?
Loin des champs trop unis, des monts trop inégaux,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXb cXXXXbbXXXXXXdXeXXf XdbXgXXXXXeeXX ddXXX XXgXaXX XhXbXXXX aXXXffXXXXXcXXXXXXXeXXXXXf XXXXXbXXXXXXeeXhXXXXbbXXd XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,19,14,5,7,8,26,25,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011110110 11111011110 1001101110010 111101110 100101111000 111011100 11010010111 11100111110 111101011 101010010110 11110011010 111100110 110111101111 100111110110 1001101001100 111001101100 01011010011 011111110110 101011111100 101110110010 101101111010 10011111111 101010101011 111110110111 101110111101 1111110100 10111010111 11110110110 1011111111100 110101111011 1011101101100 11100111100 101100111111 11101111 10111010111 010110110011 100101011111 10011111111 11011100110 1100011001 1010111110 111101010011 11001101011011 111101010101 10111011010 1110101001100 1101011111100 101011111010 10110011101 110011110011 1101101010 11111111010 11100011110 10111011110 11011001101 10110111111 10110010 101011110010 101011101000 111011100 100110010111 1011010110 1001001101110 10101011 1101111111110 111011111001 101100011001 01010111010 1110111110 110110110 110110111111 100110101100 110100111010 111011011 110110011010 11011100110 10110011110 1010110110010 110110100110 11000110110 1110110110 10111011111011 1001011100 1110111111100 0101001010 1111010110 110001011110 110101110010 111101100100 11011111000 101010101010 101010110011 11011011101 1101011110 100101100100 1010101101000 111111100110 1111010110 11110110110 11110011010 1010011010 11001001000010 1111111110 1101011110 11111011110 11101001100 11001111011 10101110111 1110111111 111011111100 101111100100 110110111100 11111011110111 1001101001 0011111111100 100100111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 615
  • Average number of words per stanza: 105
  • Amount of lines: 116
  • 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; sans, les, en, d'un, des, est, le, de, et are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words que, les, voyez, des, soit are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines trique, rents, s are repeated).

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  • summary of Les Jardins;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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