This is an analysis of the poem J'Ai Cueilli Cette Fleur Pour Toi Sur La Colline that begins with:
J'ai cueilli cette fleur pour toi sur la colline.
Dans l'âpre escarpement qui sur le flot s'incline,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXXXXXaXXbXXXXXXXaabbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111110 111000110110 11101111100 10110110010 1101101100 111011111101 11100110110 1011100001 11111101 1110011100 10110111100 101011011101 1101111111 101111101010 1011111111 111011010 1111101011 11011011011 1110111111 1101111110 11111111011 01111110011 11110111110 011111111001 101110001 111111011 101111011011 101110111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1324
- Average number of words per stanza: 252
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; de, te are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es, e are repeated).
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