This is an analysis of the poem La Grande Allée that begins with:
C'est une grande allée à deux rangs de tilleuls.
Les enfants, en plein jour, n'osent y marcher seuls,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXaab bbXXXX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111010 110111101101 11011111 11111110110 1111110110001 1111101 110110110010 110110111110 11011010 1111011110 11001111110 0110010 11111110011 1110011110111 1010101 1111011110 0111110110 101110 1111110110101 11110111101 0111101 11010110111 1111111011 101011001 01111111001 100111100111 11100110 100101111111 11111111010 111010111 11011111111 0111010011100 11100110 111110101101 11010101110 1011110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, le, les are repeated.
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- summary of La Grande Allée;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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