This is an analysis of the poem Idylle Coupée that begins with:

C’est très parisien dans les rues
Quand l’Aurore fait le trottoir,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX bbXX XX XX XXXb XXXX XcXX XXXX d XdX XeXX XXXc fXXX eXXb eXXX XXXX XbXe XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXeX XXXX XXXX XXXX XfXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,2,4,4,4,4,1,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100111 1101010 01101011 01010111 10100110 1011000 11111 11011100 1010011 11011 1011100 11101110 1011111 1111010 10100111 11011100 10111010 1001101 100011100 10001110 11100100 1101110 1111100 1111110 11101100 11100101 11010101 101111 10100101 11011100 11111000 10010111 0101101 101010 1110111 1001100 1111011 011101 11001010 1011101 11011111 1100111 0101010 10010101 1001111 1110111 1011111 1110111 101011110 11101110 111111110 100010 111100010 111001110 1101010 111011010 100100 01110101 11011010 110011 11001011 11100111 1110111 10111111 1111111 10010100 01010110 0111111 1110010 11111110 1110100 111110 10011001 1000101 1111111 1001111 111011 111111110 111111111 11111111110 11101 1111010 1111111110 1111101001 101011000 01010111 1011111 1101111 1110101 1001011 1111010010 011110 11001011 111110001 1010111 10101010 11001 1010101 110110 110101 11111111 1011010 1001111 1100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 104
  • 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; et, le, de, on, ne, soi, e are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words c, de, je, soi are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Idylle Coupée;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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