This is an analysis of the poem Vien Ça, Vien Friandelette that begins with:

Vien ça, vien friandelette,
Vien qu'en esbas amoureux...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXa XXXXbXbX XbbXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXbXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX aXXaXXXX XXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101100 11010100 1110100 111000 1101001 111101000 111001111 11110010 1111111 01110 01100 0111 111110 1101111 11111111 101011110 101111 1001111 111110 1110110 0110011 110110 1000100 0110010 11001100 11111001 1010010 1110100 1110100 11101000 1110100 11000100 1110100 1010100 1001110 11011110 111101 11000100 1110010 10000100 11110011 11110100 11110100 10111111 011100 111110 11110100 1011100 101110 1101110 1001010 11110 01100 101101 1010010 011011 11011 1011100 11110 11101101 111011 101111 111110 011011 1101111 1011111 1011011 100101 11000110 0111111 1011110 110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; vien, ', ne, de, son, les, se, voy, nous are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words vien, ', a, les are repeated.

    The author used the same word voy at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Vien Ça, Vien Friandelette;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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