This is an analysis of the poem Ariane that begins with:
Dans Naxos, où les fleurs ouvrent leurs grands calices
Et que la douce mer baise avec des sanglots,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaaX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101111011100 11111110110 1110100011 0101010110 10110110110 0111111101 1101110111 1011011011010 101110110 1010110011 111111101101 1111111101 1101111101 0111011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; les, des, et are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lices is repeated).
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- summary of Ariane;
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