This is an analysis of the poem Réponse À La Jolie Parisienne that begins with:

Certes, mademoiselle…
Jeune femme ou pucelle,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXXaabXXccXd XadXXXXeXXaXaXXXXXXXXXXXeXXXXXX aaXfXXXXXXdXfXXXXaab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,31,20,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101001 11110 101100 11111111 1111 11101 110111 11110 1111011 111110 11101 1101100 11110 11111111 1110111 11100 1111101 10111 11111111 101101 110101 11101 1101110 11111 11111110 10100 11011 101110 11111 11111 10011 11101 111001 11110 111110 111100 1111100 11100 111000 1110 101101 11111010 111011 111010 11100 1111000 10110 1111110 11110 1101101 101010 101101 111101 11010 11110 1111111 110110 110110 110101 111010 111011 111010 011111 01011 110110 111010 11111 11011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 545
  • Average number of words per stanza: 110
  • Amount of lines: 68
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; l, pas, vous, je, clame, c are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sot, faut are repeated).

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  • summary of Réponse À La Jolie Parisienne;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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