This is an analysis of the poem Premier Sourire Du Printemps that begins with:

Tandis qu'à leurs oeuvres perverses
Les hommes courent haletants,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX XXXX bXba XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110100 1110100 11111100 1110010 1111100 1000111 11011000 111101 10101111 11110100 1011010 1010100 110111101 10011101 1111001 11100101 11100110 10101111 11111110 1110011 10100101 10111011 0110111 11010010 11111110 11111110 111110010 11100001 11110011 1111110 11101011 1111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.

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  • summary of Premier Sourire Du Printemps;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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