This is an analysis of the poem La Petite Fleur Rose that begins with:

Du haut de la montagne,
Près de Guadarrama, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bXXX XXXX cXXX XXXX XXXd XbXX Xddd XcXX dXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010101 1000010 1110 111010 010011 01100 1111 101010 111110 001100 111111 011100 1010111 111010 11111 110111 110110 11100 11001 11101 1111 1111110 1110 101010 110100 101110 1000110 011100 0111100 10101 10101 101110 111010 11110 11010 101111 10111 111010 10111 1110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; que is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word la is repeated.

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