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

Ô ma muse microscopique,
Si tu ne tiens pas à l’Hippique ?…...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaX XXXXXX XXbXXX XXXXXX XXcXXX XXdXeX ffXXXa eeXeXX eXbXXX eXgcXg XXXXXg XXXXXX eecXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111000 11111110 11111111 100011 111100011 1101111 110110011 111101 1100101 11111 11101010 01010010 11110100 100011000 10010110 101100110 10011111 0110110 1111001 10110 111100 11111110 111111 1110010 10101110 111011010 10111111 11101010 111111100 101111010 11110011 111110 1001100 11111110 1111110 1111000 011101 1011001 110010 11101011 01101010 110111 101101111 111111 11011010 1111110 11011 10111100 1101101 11101100 11011011 11010110 1100110 1100110 101101110 1111100 1111011 1111111011 11101000 01100001 11111100 1101111 1001110 110101 1111110 11011101 111101100 111110100 001111 11101100 101100 10001110 111011111 1110111 11111111 1111111 111111 1101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 78
  • 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; les, des are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word il 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 e, diable, te are repeated).

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

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

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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