This is an analysis of the poem Au Jardin that begins with:

Le soir fait palpiter plus mollement les plantes
Autour d'un groupe assis de femmes indolentes ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111001100110 1011100101000 111101110100 01110010110 1111111010 111101101110 110110110011 10011110100 011110101111 111010110 01111111010 101011111110 100110011110 110100100110 110111110 111111111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 788
  • Average number of words per stanza: 134
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; les is repeated.

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  • summary of Au Jardin;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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