This is an analysis of the poem Mélusine that begins with:
Les bras nus cerclés d'or et froissant le brocart
De sa robe argentée aux taillis d'aubépines,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXaX XXX 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: 11111110010 01110110100 10100101101 1101101110 1100111001 11011011100 110011111101 111110111010 1011101111101 1011111111111 11110110111 111110100110 11110111110 101111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, et, des are repeated.
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- summary of Mélusine;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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