This is an analysis of the poem Le Grillon that begins with:

Un pauvre petit grillon
Caché dans l'herbe fleurie...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXbXbXcXcXbaXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010 1111 1001100 1001110 1011011110 10111110111 11101110111 10110111 110010111101 110110 110111111 1111010111010 111111110101 10101001 11101110 011110 101110 1110011111 10101010100 101001110 1101110 10101111101 11010101111 111101110 110111 1110101111111 11111110101 101111011010 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1155
  • Average number of words per stanza: 202
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; par, le are repeated.

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  • summary of Le Grillon;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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