This is an analysis of the poem Le Jeune Aicard À Paris that begins with:

Le jeune Aicard est dans nos murs ;
Toulon nous a donné sa perle ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XAXXXaXA XXXXXXXX BXXBXXBX XXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011001111 1010111 1010111 011001111 11011111 10110111 011001111 1010111 1011110 01101000 00110101 1011110 101110110 1110100 1011110 01101000 11101001 11111100 1000110 11101001 10111010 1101110 11101001 11111100 11111 11101100 11101111 101111 11101110 1101100 11111 11101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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; murs, nos, le, brun, les are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase brun connects the lines.

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  • summary of Le Jeune Aicard À Paris;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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