This is an analysis of the poem A Pâques that begins with:

Frère Jacques, frère Jacques,
Réveille-toi de ton sommeil d'hiver ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXXXA XXXXXXXXbXX AXXXXXXX XXXcXX AXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XbXXXXXdcc XXXXdXX XXXdXXXXX AXXAX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,11,8,6,10,8,10,7,9,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111 11011010 1110111 11101101 11 1101111 11111100 1010 10110001 1111010 110101111000 1111101 100110 1110 0111 11011111011 11 1011011 11111111 10100 101101 1111110 111110 01101 110100111011 10111110 11110111100 110111001111 1100001111 101101110111 11 10110101 11001100 11011010110 11 11111 1011010 1110100 1111101001 111 11111110 11011011 111101100 1001001110100 11111100 111110 1101110 0100 101011011 111011110 0110 1110111 111010 1110 101111110110 110101 1011111 010 11010 0110101110100 11010111010 11110 111111 11111111101100 010101100 10111001011 11010010110 11111100100 1110011110011 111101111100 100110100110 1011101010 11010111 101111110 1111 10110101011 1110111011 1111 1110100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 79
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, de, et, son, re, le, fr are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word et 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 re is repeated).

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  • summary of A Pâques;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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