This is an analysis of the poem Les Fleurs D'Ophélie that begins with:
Fleurs sur fleurs ! fleurs d'été, fleurs de printemps, fleurs blêmes
De novembre épanchant la rancoeur des adieux ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11111101011 01010110110 11111110100 1101111011 111010110100 10101011010 11001111000 11101110110 10011101000 1001010011 1000111100 111101110110 11110011111 110010111111 111001001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 15
- 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; fleurs, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word les is repeated.
The author used the same word les at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Les Fleurs D'Ophélie;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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