This is an analysis of the poem Patinage that begins with:
Allez, petites femmes,
Tournez, petites âmes...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXaX XXXXXX XXXXAX bbXaXX XXXXXX XXXXAX XXXXXX aXcXbc XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110 10111 111 100100 1110100 1011 101010 11110 11100 10111 101110 110110 101110 101110 111111 1011 10111 1111 10111 100100 10100 111010 010001 11111 100111 10110 11110 1111 110110 111010 100100 1010 11100 11010 101011 011010 10111 100100 10100 111010 010001 11111 101110 101110 111111 1011 10111 1111 111011 1100110 110110 110101 110111 11010 10111 101110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 56
- 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; les, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words passez, les, vous are repeated.
The author used the same word passez 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 ves, es, mes are repeated).
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- summary of Patinage;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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