This is an analysis of the poem Le Printemps. À Mlle *** that begins with:

Voici le Printemps, la saison des roses.
Plus de rameaux nus, de gazons jaunis ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX aXXX XXb XXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 10010110110 1010101010 10110101100 100101111 10010111010 111111100 1011010010 1001011011 1111011111 1111101111 11101101 1111010110 110111110 111011001 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; de, vous are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words plus, voici are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Le Printemps. À Mlle ***;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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