This is an analysis of the poem À Ma Jument Souris that begins with:
Pas d’éperon ni de cravache,
N’est-ce pas, Maîtresse à poil gris…...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 1111011 111011 110110 101111 11111111 10111 1001011 1110111 1111111100 0111110 1111110 11111110 0111010 0111110 11110111 0110110 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; pas, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words pas, hurrah are repeated.
The author used the same words pas, hurrah 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 re is repeated).
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- summary of À Ma Jument Souris;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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