This is an analysis of the poem Petit Mort Pour Rire that begins with:

Va vite, léger peigneur de comètes !
Les herbes au vent seront tes cheveux ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXX XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110010 1101110110 011110011 1010011101 11010111000 100011110 1110011100 11110110010 111110101 101011001 1110110111 11110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, tes are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tes is repeated).

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  • summary of Petit Mort Pour Rire;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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