This is an analysis of the poem L'Érable that begins with:

L'érable au torse dur et fort,
Ébrèche le fer qui l'assaille, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXb XXXX cXdX XXXX bXXX XXXX XXac XXXX XddX XddX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 101110 1111110 1111101 1010110 0110101 010011 1011111 10111101 0110011 11110 001011 10101110 11010010 1111110 1110010 1100111 1111101 10100111 0100111 11101011 11101110 1110110 111110 111111 1011111 101111 1110100 1111100 0110011 01110011 110010 11001 11000100 011101 11111100 101110 1011011 1101111 110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; et, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word l' is repeated.

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

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  • summary of L'Érable;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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