This is an analysis of the poem Saisons Brouillées that begins with:

Quand naissent les fleurs au chant des oiseaux
Ton étrange voix gravement résonne,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111110 1111001 11111110 11000110011 111101111 1101011 111010011 101010011 11011111 100111111 101101110 1111111010 1111111001 10110111110 10101010010 1111111001111 11100011110 1100111111 1101111111 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; je, la are repeated.

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

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

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