This is an analysis of the poem Mon Village that begins with:

Une place minime et quelques rues,
Avec un Christ au carrefour ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXbXXXXXXXcXXXX ccXXcbXXXXdXXX XaaXXXXdeXXXeXXXbbbXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXX aXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,14,36,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101101 10111100 11011111 11110101110 1010011011 111101110 1101001110 10111101 11101110 11111 1011010 1011111011010 0100110 11111 11111111010 101101101 100100101100 10010111011 11010110110 1100110 111001011 111111100 11001001010 1010100101 11101111 1111100111 111110110 1001100111 10111110 101111 10 1110 11011001 1110111001 101111101 01101101100 1110011101 1110011010 11101011111000 101011001110 111 11101010 1110110111 01110110010 11010101011 110110110110 1111110011100 10111111 1101 11 111110100 10100110 11100110 1101101 11101010 10110001 0111100001 101100111110 1110 1111001101010 110100 1111011 10011010110 1111110 11101110001 1001110100 01101001 01110100 1101011110011 111111010011 11111101110 11011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 676
  • Average number of words per stanza: 123
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; et, de, du, le, je, leurs, trois, ans are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words je, les, trois are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Mon Village;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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