This is an analysis of the poem La Petite Vierge that begins with:

La petite Vierge Marie
Passe les soirs de mai par la prairie, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXX XXXX XXXXXX XXXX XXccX abXX XXXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,4,5,4,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101 1111011110 1111110 1111111 1111011 01110100 101101110 11010010 1110110 10111110 1110111 11111110 1101101 1100 11101011 111001010 110111100 1111010 1011110 11111 01101111 1100111110 11001111 10101101 111001100110 111010110 101110 110101011100 1011111 11001111000100 101110 1110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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; la, et are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ses, un, et are 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 es is repeated).

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