This is an analysis of the poem L'Enfant Et Le Miroir that begins with:
Un enfant élevé dans un pauvre village
Revint chez ses parents, et fut surpris d'y voir...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaXXbXXXbXXXXXcXXcXXbcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111110 101110111011 110 10110110 11111011111 11111111 111001101 101110101011 1011011 11011110 1111100111 1010111110 1110100 111111111110 110110 0110110 1101011 1111001010 10111100101 1111011110 011111111 01101110110 111101111110111 111111111111 011011101 01011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 984
- Average number of words per stanza: 196
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; un, et, il, tu are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, il, tu are repeated.
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- summary of L'Enfant Et Le Miroir;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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