This is an analysis of the poem Le Coucher D'Un Petit Garçon that begins with:
Couchez-vous, petit Paul ! Il pleut. C'est nuit : c'est l'heure.
Les loups sont au rempart. Le chien vient d'aboyer....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX bXbX XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101111111 111110011100 110110111101 111011101110 1111110101011 011001101101 11110111111011111 101011111110 11011110110 11010110110 1111011010 100110111100 101110111011 11011110001 11110011101 1001110110110 110011101110 101010010111 11111001110 11110111111 111101111 110111111111111 1110110111 1111111110 0101010111 1101111111110 111101111 11101001111101 11110011111 1110100110110 1111111110 110111111100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, dieu, qui are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
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