This is an analysis of the poem Concours De Beauté that begins with:

Venez çà, petites chéries
De lis et de roses pétries...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXbXXb ccXXXX XXXaXX XXXXdX XeXXeX XXcXXX aaaddX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111 0110101 10110110 10010110 11011011 1011010 1100110 100110 11011111 11001100 11101100 111101110 1010101 1000010 11010 101010100 101010110 11011 1111000 1111101100 11101110 10111010 11000100 101111110 1011100 10110100 1101111 111100 1001010 111101011 111111 111001 1110110 11110111 111111110 10010110 1111101 10101101 0110111 11101111 10001 01110 10111110 10111110 111001 111101011 1111001 011111 111110 11111100110 1110110 111011100 1000011 11001100 1111110 10111010 11011011 1111110 1100110 11100010 11101101 111110110 101111 11111111 1110111111 11101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 66
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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, les are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word telle at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es, vocable, faites are repeated).

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  • summary of Concours De Beauté;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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