This is an analysis of the poem Je Suis Un Pâle Enfant Du Vieux Paris... that begins with:

Je suis un pâle enfant du vieux Paris, et j'ai
Le regret des rêveurs qui n'ont pas voyagé....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXaaXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111011011 0011111110 1111111111 111011110 11101111100 11110101110 11101101011 111001110110 11110100100 100100110 11101111001 10111111111 10111011010 111010011110 1011110111 1001101001110 1101110010 111111001 1011111101 1101011001 10111011011 110110111010 111111010 101110010 111101101100 1011111010 011001101101 010011111001 1111011111 010110110101 110010110100 010100101100 110011101111 10101111010 10100111010 11111110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 824
  • Average number of words per stanza: 153
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, au, et, le, ou, d'un are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tre, moi are repeated).

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