This is an analysis of the poem Douceur D'Avril that begins with:

J'ai peur d'avril, peur de l'émoi
Qu'éveille sa douceur touchante ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXAX XXXX bXXX XXXX bXXX XXbX XXXX XXAX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 1110101 1011010 1100111 111111111 1111011 01100110 0111111 1101011 10101110 111011010011 1111100 11110110 111101111 01101111 1110100 11100100 111110101 10011010 10110010 11001001 01010110 11001010 10110101 10010110 1111110 11001010 1111010 010011011 1110101 1011010 1100111 111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; le, rien are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Douceur D'Avril;
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  • history of its creation;
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