This is an analysis of the poem Lied that begins with:

Au mois d'avril, la terre est rose,
Comme la jeunesse et l'amour ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX XXXX XbXb XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011011 1110110 1011111 10010010 1101111 101011 1011101 11101101 1111010 111011 1101111 11001010 11011 111011 11111 101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; le, de are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Lied;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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