This is an analysis of the poem Aux Arbres that begins with:

Arbres de la forêt, vous connaissez mon âme!
Au gré des envieux, la foule loue et blâme ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaXaXXbXXXXcXXXXbddXX XXcXXXXXXXXaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011110011 1111011111 1110011101110 11110010011 101010111110 1101101111 11110100111 11010100110 110111111101 10111110110 10011110100 10111011011111 1001111110 11101101 10011110111 1011011111101 10110011110 11011111110 10010111011 110111111111 1111011111 111111011010 1111111111 10111101101 111011110 1110111110111 100111110010 1111111111101 101110101101 1011101010100 1111101100111 111110110111 11101111111111 1111000111111 1010111111100 101001101 111111111 11110101101 11111001110 11111101111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 970
  • Average number of words per stanza: 181
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; vous, me, un, et, votre, je are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word dans is repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, e, re, t are repeated).

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

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