This is an analysis of the poem La Pauvre Fille that begins with:

J’ai fui ce pénible sommeil
Qu’aucun songe heureux n’accompagne ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX XXXbXcX aXaXXXXXXcXdXXd cXXX XcXeb eXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,15,4,5,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110 10110100 1101101 10110001 1010110 01101011011 11101011100 11111101 110111101 10111111101110 1011110110010 111100111 1111111010 111111111101 101010 1011011 01100010110 1110011 111001011 111110111011 1011101 010100111010 101111110 1001011 101110101001 11011000 1101011 1110101 11111111 111011111111 101110101 1100110 111111 11101111011 10101110 10011010101 11111011100 11101110 101110101111 111010 1111110 10111110 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, la, y are repeated.

    The author used the same word souvent at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of La Pauvre Fille;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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