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

Je me penche attendri sur les bois et les eaux,
Rêveur, grand-père aussi des fleurs et des oiseaux ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXXbbXaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111100111111 11110111110 11101110110 11100100110 1111001111100 11111111 1110111001 1001011110 11010111010 111101011111111 10110001110100 1111111110110 0101101011 110110111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 692
  • Average number of words per stanza: 125
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; les, des, et, je are repeated.

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

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