This is an analysis of the poem Les Deux Trottoirs that begins with:
Depuis qu’à travers la Grand’Ville
Je vais musant et badaudant,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX bXXX XXXa XXXc XXXd XXXX XXXX cXXe XaaX XXXX XXXX XfXX bXXb eXdc dXXX fXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110110 111101100 11011011 1011110 1111001 1011011 11110111 1010111 1101111 1111100 10110101 1011111 11011100 1101110 11111111 1111001 11011100 111111100 1111110 11101 1111010 1110011 0100100 101011110 11101 0111110 1111101100 1101100 111011111 1111100 101101000 110111 1111111 111111011 1111111111 11101111 1111110 1111001 101010 01011100 101101 110011100 10111110 0101101 11011011 1111001111 100111 11001010 11111101 101010 11101010 1111101 11110011 11100110 111111001 111111111 11010101 110110 111100 11001110 1110110111 111011 111011 111110110
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; l, on, est, vous, de, peu, d are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words l, on are repeated.
The author used the same word sur at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines point, e, me, bistros are repeated).
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- summary of Les Deux Trottoirs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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