This is an analysis of the poem Petits Bourgeois that begins with:
Je n'ai jamais compris l'ambition. Je pense
Que l'homme simple trouve en lui sa récompense, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010100111 11101110110 10101111110 1111011111101 11110110110 11011110111 101110101010 10111010111 01111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 430
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 9
- 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; je is repeated.
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More information about poems by François Coppée
- Analysis of Pitié Des Choses
- Analysis of Prisonnier D'Un Bureau, Je Connais Le Plaisir
- Analysis of Réponse
