This is an analysis of the poem Les Mille-Iles that begins with:
Massifs harmonieux, édens des flots tranquilles,
D'oasis aux fleurs d'or innombrables réseaux,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXaX XaX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10100111100 1011110001 11110111110 100010011010 10111111110 111111000100 101110011 100101111 1110111111100 1100100110010 110101101110 100010101111 111110011111 11101101100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; des, vos are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ves is repeated).
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- summary of Les Mille-Iles;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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