This is an analysis of the poem Les Femmes Et Le Printemps that begins with:

Il paraîtrait que le Printemps,
Si l’on en croit l’Histoire,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX XbXX cXcX XXXX XXXb XXXX XXXX XXXX XbXX XdXX eXXX dXXX eXXb XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001010 111110 1101110 101000 11110 11111 111110 101100 11001011 1101 111011 11110111 1110111 10111 11110110 100011 11101100 111011 1011011 101101 11100110 11111 111110111 111001 10010110 111010 1111110 1101111 111111110 110011 11111010 100111 1111110 010110 1111001 10111 1101110 110001 110110 101000 10011001 110110 1111101 1011110 11111110 11100 1011111 11100 111010 111100 10111000 111111 10111111 111111 1100101 110101 1111100 11111 111001 101111 11010010 1110 11110001 01011 100101 101101 1111110 101100 1001110 11011 1110010 110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; vous, des are repeated.

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

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

  • summary of Les Femmes Et Le Printemps;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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