This is an analysis of the poem La Premiere Femme that begins with:

Sourire enclos en des fleurs de rosier
Je vis de par la magnifique haleine...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX bXbX XXXX XbXb cXcX XXXX XXXc XXXa XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101110100 11101110010 11101101010 011011011 11111111011 10101100 111110110 111101101 11111111001 11111110 11100111 111111110 1110111 1110110111 11101110 1111110110 01001011 11100101110 101010111 1101001110 1011010 1101010110 111010001 111101111 1111100100 101011101 1111110110 111110111 1111110 111010110 1111111 1111110110 10011111 101011101 10011111 11010111 110010110 101000011 11111010 110101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, d, tu, la are repeated.

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

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