This is an analysis of the poem Les « Précieuses » Non Ridicules that begins with:
Quand, en Chine, un Chinois devient décapité,
Une fois sa besogne faite,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101010 111101 01011010100 10101011 110010111110 011000110 111110110110 1111110 0111110111100 11100100 1011111000 011110 10101011111 101101100 1011111001 101100110 1101111110 11101110 1111011110100 111111111 1101110111 11111 111111110110 1110101 110111111100 101101000 111101011100 11101111 101111111111 1101100 01101011110 1011111 111111111 111111010 111110110110 1001111 111101111010 10111010 11010110001 111011 11110111010 10101110 111111110010 111110 1111001111101 01011110 111110110 111101110 10110111110 11110 111101111111 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; qu, il, les, en, d, se are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words les, c are repeated.
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