La Rose by Jean Antoine de Baif: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem La Rose that begins with:

Durant cette saison belle
Du renouveau gracieux,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXaaaa babXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101 010010 1111100 110100 11111 11111 1101110 111111110 111011111 1111010 111111 10110 11110 11010 10110 110101 1111111 1011010 11110 0111110 11010011 11111010 1101011 11111110 111111 11110110 110110 11101 111101 101110 111110011 1011010 1101001 110110 101011 1011110 111010 10111110 111110 11111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; ny, la are repeated.

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

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

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