This is an analysis of the poem Soirs D'Automne that begins with:

Voici que la tulipe et voilà que les roses,
Sous les gestes massifs des bronzes et des marbres,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXXa XXXX AXXX XXaX
  • 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: 101110111110 1110101101110 10111011110 1011111000110 11101111100 1111011110100 101101111000 100111101000 101110111110 1111001010 100100101110 100110111110 11101011111 0111011110 1101111101110 101101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, et, des are repeated.

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  • summary of Soirs D'Automne;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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