This is an analysis of the poem Les Balsamines that begins with:
En un fauteuil sculpté de son salon ducal,
La noble Viennoise, en gaze violette,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX aXXX XXX 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: 11101010110 1101011101 01110010010 0110110100 111111100 11100111111 01100111010 101010111110 11111010111 1110110110 1001110111 1110111110110 11110101010 01011100010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; des is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Les Balsamines;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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