This is an analysis of the poem A Une Jeune Fille that begins with:
Pourquoi, tout à coup, quand tu joues,
Ces airs émus et soucieux?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa aXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 111110 1111111 111111 1111010 11101011 1101111 11001000 111111 110011 111110 1101011 11010010 11010111 111111 01100010 111110 1111010 111101 101110 0110111101 11011 10100010 111110011 11111001 11111110 11110011 11011 11101101 101110 1110110 0111111 1111110 1100010 11110110 1101101 11110111 1111110 1110010 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 87
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; d, la are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word un is repeated.
The author used the same words comme, dois at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Une Jeune Fille;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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