This is an analysis of the poem Journaliste Pieux that begins with:
Sur le trottoir, un jour, vous heurtez par mégarde
Un être qui sans voir allait clopin-clopant....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXa XXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 10101111011 11111101010 101100101100 1110111010 0101011100110 101101100010 110001111101 110101111010 1001011110 110111101 111010011101 111110011110 111100100101 1111011001 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; vous, le, il are repeated.
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- summary of Journaliste Pieux;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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