This is an analysis of the poem Le Pin Des Landes that begins with:

On ne voit en passant par les Landes désertes,
Vrai Sahara français, poudré de sable blanc, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XaaX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111011110 10101010101 100111110110 11101101111 11101011001 110100110 11111010110100 11110011110 1100111111 0111111111 1111101101011 11101111010 01011011101 100011101111 111011111010 11011100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, qui are repeated.

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  • summary of Le Pin Des Landes;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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