This is an analysis of the poem Souvenir De La Nuit Du 4 (Memory Of The Night Of The 4th) that begins with:

L'enfant avait reçu deux balles dans la tête.
Le logis était propre, humble, paisible, honnête ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXbXXcadeXbXXXfXXXXXXXgXXXXXhXXaaaXXXhXXX Xb XXhXXXXXXXgX X cXaijbadgXihfXbgccajbaXbbXakaXcXilkmXaXiblhfhXcm kkbXciefkbcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,2,12,1,48,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111111 0101110101 11011011110 111111110 1010011011 11011101110 111010100110 1101111111 110111111011 101111011111 111101111111 110010011 1011011100111 111010111110 111110011110 11110110011 010111111110 111000111011 111111110110 1100100010 1110110110 11111101110 111111110101 110111101011 111101111010 01111111111 11101110111 11011011110 011110111111 110110011101111 01110100111 10111101111011 1111011011 10101111101 11011111110 0111111111 111111011101111 10101101101 0111101111 1100011010 1111110101 1111100111 100110110101 111101011110 10111111110110 111111110 11101011101 1010111011101 111100111100 01100111100 0111111111101 1101010110110 01011111011 1101111101011 11011110 11101110101 110100111110 1110101111011 011011111001 101010110011 100001001 01101110001 01110101000100 1101101010 01101110 101101001 11011011 011101001 0010110101 111011000111010 111011010101 0111101011110 0110110101 10111010110 101010010 1001111101 01110111101 100011110101 110111011 011110001010 10110101110001 111110010101 01111111 11001011011101 1110111010 110100100011 1101100 111111011 110101001001 11101001 110111011 1010111 1111011111 1110111010010 111110110101 11101011111 111101111001 111101101 110100101 110110101 1101001010 11110111001 1001011101 111111101 101111110010 11111111 1101110100 11110101110 1000110001 1101011011 10010010011 01101110100 11010010 101010011 01111110 100010100 1111110100010 11011011011 1110011110 1110110001 1110101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 933
  • Average number of words per stanza: 173
  • Amount of lines: 122
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; ses, il, la, les, in, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines te, bas, tre, t are repeated).

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  • summary of Souvenir De La Nuit Du 4 (Memory Of The Night Of The 4th);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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