This is an analysis of the poem Symphonie En Blanc Majeur that begins with:

De leur col blanc courbant les lignes,
On voit dans les contes du Nord,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX bXbX XXXX XXXX cXcX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXd XXXX eXXX XXXX XXXe XXXX XXXd XXXX Xebe edeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011110110 11111001 101111010 10110101 110011 010111 111111 1110110 011011011 11101100 110101 11101111 101110 011010 011011 0110010 111111 11101 10110011 10101100 111010010 10111010 111001100 1001110 1110011 101110 111101 11010001 0110011 011010 0111011 011101011 0111111 10100110 011110 111011 0111111 1101100 10111010 10000101 10111111 1111001 111111 10011010 101010 11100110 101110 111110 011011100 1110110 110100110 1010111 100111 11110011 11110 110011 010101010 10111010 1110011 11011 1101110 1110100 011110110 11111010 1101100 101101 1111101 0101101 11111101 1110111 11101111 11010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • 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.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, de, oh are repeated.

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  • summary of Symphonie En Blanc Majeur;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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