This is an analysis of the poem La Petite Marchande De Fleurs that begins with:

Elle nous proposa ses fleurs d'une voix douce,
Et souriant avec ce sourire qui tousse. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110011111 1101011011 1110111011 110010110010 110101111000 11110011001100 1110111111110 111101111110 111010101110 111110111 101001110110 101101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; je, nous, mes are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of La Petite Marchande De Fleurs;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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