This is an analysis of the poem Le Miroir Brisé that begins with:
Le petit homme qui chantait sans cesse
le petit homme qui dansait dans ma tête ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXaXXXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111011 0101110111 01010110 011100100 1101100011 11111110 11010011 101011 11001110 111110 10011 100111100 11111111 110 100 111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 498
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; le, homme, petit, de, te, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word le is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines te is repeated).
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