This is an analysis of the poem La Fleur Qui Fait Le Printemps that begins with:

Les marronniers de la terrasse
Vont bientôt fleurir, à Saint-Jean, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXb bcXX dXXX XXXX ecXX XXbX XXXX XXXX XXXe XXdX XXXX XXXc XXXe XaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11000110 111011 11011110 1011110 1110111 1111010 11111 11001001 11100101 1111011 1110001 0111101 10010111 1110110 101001110 101110 110100 11101111 10100110 111010 11110011 11101111 1001011 111110 11010111 1100011 1111111 1111010 1101011 111110 100011011 1110001 11000110 1101101 1011111 1111 111011010 11010110 11110010 1111001 111111010 10110101 110101 1111011 1111111100 1011100 11011010 111100 01111110 1010110 111111 1111010 1110110 1110011 10111110 10011101 10110101 1111110 1101110 1010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words la, vous, par are repeated.

    The author used the same word je at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of La Fleur Qui Fait Le Printemps;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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