This is an analysis of the poem Le Tung-Whang-Fung that begins with:

La fleur Ing-wha, petite et pourtant des plus belles,
N'ouvre qu'à Ching-tu-fu son calice odorant ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXa XXXX XbXX XXXX bXbX
  • 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: 111101110111 11111110100 1101110111101 11011110111 11011111110 11101011101010 11111111111010 111111110110 1111101111111 1111111011 111101011110 1111011111101 101110111001 1110111111011 1111110110 10111100110 111111111001 110001110010 1101111111011 101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; et, la, fleur, qui, l'oiseau, m, me are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Le Tung-Whang-Fung;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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