This is an analysis of the poem Chanson Pour Faire Danser En Rond Les Petits Enfants that begins with:

Grand bal sous le tamarin.
On danse et l'on tambourine....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaXX aXXXX XaXXX XXaXX aXXXX XXXXX aaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110100 1111101 1110101 100100 100100 1011101 10110 1111010 1000100 1000100 11110 1110101 01110110 1000100 1000100 1011100 0100100 1101001 1000100 1000100 10111 0101110 100100 1000100 1000100 110010 10110 1101110 1000100 1000100 1011001 1100110 0101100 1000100 1000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Chanson Pour Faire Danser En Rond Les Petits Enfants;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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