This is an analysis of the poem On Demande Des Jolies Femmes that begins with:

S’il est quelques poupées
Encore inoccupées...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX aXXXXX XXbXXc bXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXd XaXXXX bXXbXd XXXXXX XXXeeX cXXXXX XXeXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011010 111000 101110 1010100 1001100 111010 1111010 111010 1001 111010 11011100 01111 101010 111010 1101 110101 100110 111001 101011 110100 1011 11001 111 111100 111000 011000 101110 1110110 110111 101110 1011000 1100100 1101100 1111 011111 1111 1111110 101100 11111 111 11111 01101 1010110 010110 1111101 1111011 11110 111001 111010 10111 111010 100010 1101111 11110 11101 1111111 10110 01101 11101 111111 101011 1011111 011010 011010 11011 100110 111110 11111111 11001 11111 11101 111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nous, rien are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word de is repeated.

    The author used the same word venez 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 es, les are repeated).

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  • summary of On Demande Des Jolies Femmes;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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