This is an analysis of the poem En La Saison Des Fleurs that begins with:

Quand vient la saison printanière,
Une fleur à ma boutonnière...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaX XXbcXb ddXXXX eXcbbc XXaXXX XXXXcX eXfXXf ddXXXX XXXXXX aXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 11110100 111100 1111010 11111 101111 110110010 111101 1000110 1110111 100011 11110 110011 1011011 1100011 1111110 11110111 111100 1111111 111111111 1111111 1110111 11011111 11010111 111110111 111110 1111011 1100101 011110110 11110 1111110 111001 1100010 111100110 11101110 111111001 11111010 1111101 111110 111011 111011 111011100 01010111 1111111 1110011 11100110 11110110 11111110 1110100 111111111 11011111 11010 111111 11010110 1001011 111011111 101010 11110110 1111110 111011 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • 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; un, est, je are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word si 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 re, tre, e are repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of En La Saison Des Fleurs;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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