This is an analysis of the poem Pauvre Garçon that begins with:
Lui qui sifflait si haut, son petit air de tête,
Était plat près de moi ; je voyais qu’il cherchait…...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1011011110101 111011110110 1111011100101 111111110110 11110011111 110010101010 11001111 11110110100 011111011011 1011111111 11010111101101 111011101 10110101101 1111101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; cela, il, le are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ou is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines le is repeated).
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- summary of Pauvre Garçon;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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