This is an analysis of the poem Les Colombes that begins with:
Sur le coteau, là-bas où sont les tombes,
Un beau palmier, comme un panache vert,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX baXX XbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101111110 111011011 1111011100 1010111110 10101010110 111011111 1001111010 1111011111 110111111110 011001010 1011110011 1100110110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Les Colombes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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