This is an analysis of the poem À Rosita that begins with:

Aux frais bourdonnements des abeilles dorées,
Aux chants du rossignol se prolongeant sur l'eau,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 111000110010 1101001110011 101010110010 11100011010 1010011010 110111001 11111101 110010111010 111101100 111110111000 1101111111 1111111110 110011001 11011111111 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; aux is repeated.

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

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  • summary of À Rosita;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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