This is an analysis of the poem Air De La Princesse D'Orange that begins with:

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Viens, ô toi que j'adore, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XXXXXX XbbXbb XXXXXX XXcXcX XXXXXX dXXdee X XFFXFX fAAXAe XXXXXX eAAeAX XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11110 1101110 10111 111010 110111 11001 101110 110110 10110 010110 110110 1110 1111010 110101 101111 1111110 111011 01111 1011010 100110 1111 1101110 11101 11010 101110 110011 010110 110110 110100 101110 11111 01110 1010 111111 11111 011 1 11111 110100 110100 110110 110100 1110110 101111 101101 101101 11111 101101 111011 1001100 110110 110110 1011010 110110 100110 11011 110101 110101 111111 110101 1110 1110110 111011 111011 101111 111011 101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 68
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, les, dans, au, vous are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines innocents, mai, buissons, esprit, fleurs are repeated).

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  • summary of Air De La Princesse D'Orange;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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