This is an analysis of the poem Les Attentives that begins with:
Celui qui doit mourir ce soir dans les tranchées
C'est un petit soldat dont l'œil indolemment...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXXAX bXXXbc aXXXaX XaaXXaXX XdXd XXXX XXXXbX XXdX XXaXX XXXXXXXXbbXcXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,8,4,4,6,4,5,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110111110 111010111000 0110111010 110101110100 101110111110 111010111110 1100110111111 1110111100110 11101111111 11101111001110 1100110111111 110111111011 1100101010110 101011100 11010110010 11011101010 10111110110 111010111110 1101011 11011 111111 10001 111111110 11111110 101101111 1110111010 1011111110 110001110010 101100110100 111111010010 111101111101 1111000111100 111111010 11101111101 1101111 01111010 01110000 1111111010 11101011 111011 11011110 1101110 11011011 11101110 111111110 11110111 1101111 100 11 011011 10111101 110111 11111111110 10101010 1101110 1111101110110 111010111001 11110101001 1 1100111010 1111 11011001100 110 1101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; je, veux, de, et, les, sont, qui are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words je, c'est, il, ces, ce, tu, et are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es, chose, vent, s are repeated).
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- summary of Les Attentives;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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