This is an analysis of the poem Les Menus Faits, Les Mille Riens that begins with:

Les menus faits, les mille riens,
Une lettre, une date, un humble anniversaire,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111 11111101000 111110111010 10111111101 1110001111010 11101100111 110101111011 1111010101 11101110111010 011010110001 110010110111 101110111010 11011111101 01101011110 11111001101 1011100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; nous, et, le 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.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase le connects the lines.

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  • summary of Les Menus Faits, Les Mille Riens;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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