This is an analysis of the poem Les Fleurs Boréales/Les Pins that begins with:

O mes vieux pins touffus, dont le tronc centenaire
Se dresse, défiant le temps qui détruit tout,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110101100 111101111 1011011010 100111010 1111010111 10010110 11100110110 1001100110 11111111 101100111110 1111101111001 1110001110 111110101011 110110110001 1001111001 1010110110110 110101110 10100111101 11011111100 110111101110 111111110100 100110110110 1110111100 11110011011 11111111110100 110111100 111010111100 1111011100 101101110 110011101001 1111100111 111011100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; le, vos, et, la, mes are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Les Fleurs Boréales/Les Pins;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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