This is an analysis of the poem La Petite Canadienne that begins with:

Elle est bonne, franche, et telle
Que l'amoureux de chez nous ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbX cXcXb dXXXa XXXXa XXXXX XXbXX aXXXX XXXXX XXXdX XXXXX XXXXX XXXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011111 1100011 11101110 1011111 1011011 1101 1010110 01111 11011 1011101 10111 101101 1010 111010 111011101 1001 11111110 11111100 10010 1110010 110110 110011010 0101001 101011 1010010 1110110 11000 111111 111100 11011 11111001 101010 011001 111100 010010 10101100 111111 101101110 1001100 1111110 101010 100111 11100 01101 10001110 1110111 10101 01001 0101100 1110110 11101 111000 10110111 111110 111010 1110111 110011 11110 010101 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, la, viens, le are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines res is repeated).

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  • summary of La Petite Canadienne;
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  • history of its creation;
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