This is an analysis of the poem Dans Ce Jardin Antique Où Les Grandes Allées that begins with:

Dans ce jardin antique où les grandes allées
Passent sous les tilleuls si chastes, si voilées ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbXXXbXXccXb
  • 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: 11100111101 10111011011 11111111100 110111011001 1111111001 110001111001 101010111010 11110011101 1101111111 1011101111 101111111101 101110101111 101100111101 1111111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 692
  • Average number of words per stanza: 126
  • 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 is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es is repeated).

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  • summary of Dans Ce Jardin Antique Où Les Grandes Allées;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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