This is an analysis of the poem Le Saut Du Tremplin that begins with:
Clown admirable, en vérité !
Je crois que la postérité,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX abXaXX XXXXXX XXXXcX XdXXXX XXXXXX XeXbbX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX bbXXde XcXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100011 1111110 1111001 01001111 111001 0101101 111101010 1111001 11011100 10110010 1101100 11000111 01100100 11111110 1100010 1101010 10100110 11101110 110110 1111010 1110011010 1010100 11001110 110111110 101110 110111011 1010111 11111101 110110 1011110 1101110 1101011 1000100 1011001 11111111 1011110 1011110 11101111 1101110 111111111 10110101 11011100 111010 11101101 10110111 10011010 1101110 1110111110 1011101 111101 110010 11010010 101011 111111 111110011 10110110 1101010 1011010 11011100 101110 111111111 1101001 10111000 1110011 11110101 111111 1001110 01101111 1010010010 11011010 101110 10101110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, les, des, ailes, haut are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word des is repeated.
The author used the same word plus at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rit, moi are repeated).
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- summary of Le Saut Du Tremplin;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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