This is an analysis of the poem Invitation À La Valse that begins with:

Mignonne, voici le juin.
Il fait une chaleur folle...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXaX bXbX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101001 111101 1011 10100 1010010 110110 111001 111100 1111010 1110010 101100 1110010 101110 11011010 10111 11101110 101110 101111 1101100 01101 1101000 1010110 1111010 11110 1011100 00101100 11101 1111110 11110100 100011 111110 1110000 111110 1111100 11111110 1110100 110110 11000100 1011010 1101000 1011010 10111 110010 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; l, tu are repeated.

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  • summary of Invitation À La Valse;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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