This is an analysis of the poem La Terre Et L'Enfant that begins with:
Enfant sur la terre on se traîne,
Les yeux et l'âme émerveillés,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX XbXX XXXc XaXX XXba cXcX XXXX XXXX bXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111111 111110 1111101 1110111 11111111 1101011111 11110111 11011011 101011 01101100 1110011 11010111 110111 10010110 1110111 11100010 110111 11100110 11001101 111010111 1111001 110111011 1110011 1011111 111111011 1111100 101111110 1101111100 1011101 101010 11111101 111011 11111101 10110110 100110 111111100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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; je, de, te are repeated.
The author used the same word ils at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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