This is an analysis of the poem Sous Les Ormes that begins with:

Ce sont deux frais séjours, deux vrais nids de fauvettes,
Faits pour des heureux ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXaX bXXX XXXX XXbX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111110100 11110 1101111110 11100 10110011111 11110 0101111101 01101 10110111111 1001 11101011010 111011 110111111100 1111 11011101101 11110 1101111110010 11100 1111101110010 11001 10101111110 11010 1111011110 0111 1010101111 1101 1110100101101 1011
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; deux, que are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Sous Les Ormes;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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