This is an analysis of the poem La Jolie Rousse that begins with:

Me voici devant tous un homme plein de sens
Connaissant la vie et de la mort ce qu'un vivant peut ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXXXXXXXbXX XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX XbXXXXXXb XXXX cXaac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,5,11,9,4,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010111101 100111011110101 10 101110111010 1011100100110 10010100 101110 10111111001100 111110100 10101101011001 111101011101011 101110 11100101011 101111110 11111100101010100 0110100 1111011100101 11011111 10100111100 01110101001 111010100 1111011100 110110010110100 10111111010 11011110110101 11001000 1011100110 110010111111111 11010011011011100 10111100101100 010010100 10111010111 1011111010 1110011101010 101101011010 110 11110111011 101101111100 111101010110 101010 101001 11011110 1111100 1110111100 1111111110 11101 101010110 111010101111110 101011111100110 101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 341
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; de, ayant, et, nous, piti, pour are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ayant, nous, elle are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word l'aventure at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of La Jolie Rousse;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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