This is an analysis of the poem Mai that begins with:
Mai passe dans les champs comme un enfant de chœur,
De ses petites mains versant avec délices,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXa XXb XXb
- 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: 111111111101 01111101010 1111101011100 1100101101 101001100110 110110111010 1111011110100 11001111111 11010001111 101100100110 111011011 010010101 100110100011 111101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; le, des are repeated.
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- summary of Mai;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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