This is an analysis of the poem La Petite Seine that begins with:
L'humble rivière de chez nous
Ne mène pas un grand tapage ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXb XXXXXXXX XXbA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011 11111110 10111011 1101010 1101110 111101111 1110100 1001010 10100011 100111 0110110 11111110 1010111 11001110 11001010 110011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; des, la are repeated.
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- summary of La Petite Seine;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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