This is an analysis of the poem Fantaisie Créole that begins with:

Or, la pourpre vêt la véranda rose
Au motif câlin d'une mandoline,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXaA XXXX aXXa aXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111101 10111100 1110111001 11111101 1011111010 11101111110 1110011011 1011111010 1101011011 1111110100 1101111011 110101111 11111101 11100110 1001011001 11111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; la, v, rose are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rose is repeated).

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  • summary of Fantaisie Créole;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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