This is an analysis of the poem Éventail that begins with:

Dans le salon ancien à guipure fanée
Où fleurit le brocat des sophas de Niphon,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXaX XaAX XXXaA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100110101 110010110010 11011111001 101111101 11101010 1011101110 100110101 110010110010 101111111 1011101110 1001010101110 1110111 100110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; de is repeated.

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

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

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