This is an analysis of the poem Le Pot De Fleurs that begins with:

Parfois un enfant trouve une petite graine
Et tout d'abord, charmé de ses vives couleurs, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXXX XaXX
  • 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: 1011111011 1110101110 111011110100 10101101001 111101110010 10110110100 11101111001 110110010010 11101011111 11101101110 1111001110110 110111100011 10101011101 11101110101010 1111011011 01010011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; de, il, la are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Le Pot De Fleurs;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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