This is an analysis of the poem Sous Les Villosités Violettes that begins with:

Sous les villosités violettes des tartres
Les blancs Olympiens ont pris des tons caducs....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX aa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100100110 11100111110 111011111011 10101111010 11111100110 11111101101 10011011111 111101100010 0101111100111 1101111011 11001011101 100011010011 110101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; des, les, de are repeated.

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  • summary of Sous Les Villosités Violettes;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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