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.

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

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

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