This is an analysis of the poem La Bouture that begins with:
Au temps où les plaines sont vertes,
Où le ciel dore les chemins,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXX XXXX XXXb bXXX aXaX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110 1011110 11111100 111111 1101111 111101100 11101101 1111110 11101100 10101100 11111110 10110100 1111110 10101 1101110 11111 111010111 011101 10011110 111001111 111010010 1111010 111110110 1111010 11111110 11001010 1111110 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; les, o are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
The author used the same word au at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of La Bouture;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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