This is an analysis of the poem Du Printemps that begins with:

La froidure paresseuse
De l'yver a fait son tems :...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XXXb caca XXde XXXX eXXX XXXX XXXX XbXb XXXd XXXX XXXX XaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110100 0100111 1011010 01010 1101101 101001 11010 111110 0110110 1100110 101111 101001 110101 1101111 1101111 0110011 1011101 110010 11110101 1101101 1101010 0101010 110010 0100100 101111 11101110 1010110 0110100 11011110 01011011 111001011 1111110 1100010 111111 10011100 1101111 11110100 1100111 11100110 011101 1101110 0101010 1111100 1101011 11011000 1100111 11010100 100111 1011011 01011100 111110 1111100 110101 1111010 10001111 101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; la, le, des are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words soit, aux are repeated.

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

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

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