This is an analysis of the poem À Ma Petite-Fille Emma. 1er Janvier 1905. that begins with:

Viens, mon bébé chéri ! viens vite, je t'attends
Là, sur mon cœur qui bat ; et pardonne si j'ose,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXab aXbX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111111110 11111111011 1011010110 1011111101 11010011101 111011110100 110111101101 11111111101 11001011110 1010111110 1111011101 1111111111110 101110111100 11111101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mon, mes, la are repeated.

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