This is an analysis of the poem La Cueillette Des Cerises that begins with:

Espiègle! j'ai bien vu tout ce que vous faisiez,
Ce matin, dans le champ planté de cerisiers...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111111110 11010110100 111111111 1101010011 111110110010 11110110011 1110101100100 101110101100 10101111101 10110011011 111111111111 111010111010 1111011111 10101101101 11100110110 11011111100 11111100010 11001110100 11110101110 10111111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 943
  • Average number of words per stanza: 168
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; un, dans are repeated.

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  • summary of La Cueillette Des Cerises;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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