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

Ces roses sont d’un rose étourdissant,
N’est-il pas vrai, ma reine délicate ?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX XbXX XXbX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa cXXc XXXX XXbX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111100 11111110 1111110101 11101001 11001011100 111111101 111011110 110101100 1111111 010110011 11010001 110110100 11101111011 1111111 10110110100 111011011 1011110100 111011110 110011001 111111000 110111110 1011101110 11111010 110111110 100011010 1110110111 1101001110 111010011 101111001 111110001 100111011 1101100111 0111111011 11110111 1110110111 1111011 110101100 10011100 011011110 1111101 11101110 10111111111 1110111111 1011110 111111110000 111110111110 1011111100 110011110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ces, de, d, leur, et, en, les are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, je are repeated.

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

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