This is an analysis of the poem Un Jeune Qui S'En Va that begins with:

Oh le printemps ! – Je voudrais paître !…
C’est drôle, est-ce pas : Les mourants...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa Xbcb Xbdb eXXX fXfX XXXX XXXX XXXX XgXX XhXh iXiX XgXX XjaXX XeXX XXhj XXXX XXXj XXXX XXXX cXXX XdXj XXbX dXXX XXXX XXXeX XXXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011101 110111110 1101011 10011010 10101111 1111011 11011111 111111110 1111111 10110111 11110110 1110101 1111011 1111110 1101110 111111 10101111 1101110 111111 11110010 11111010 111110 10011110 111111010 111111111 11111110 111010111 011111 101110 11011001 11011110 111101 1010011 11010110 1000101 010110 1110110 111011 1011111 10111 11101110 11111 111011100 111111111 11101110 1101010 11010110 11111100 110 1111 101111111 1011100 1110111 110011 011011 10101110 11001010 11010 1010010 10011011 01111011 1101011 1001110 1000111 100010 01101 100110 1011111 1111110100 10111110 01011010 1011101 1111101 11100100 10111101 10110100 1010110 11010010 1001 1011111 110101 10110000 110110 11100001 1111101 11110011 111111 1100110 1110111 111101110 10100100 11111101 01101 11010 1011011 1111010 1110100 1111011 10011110 11101111 101111 110 1011110 110101110 11111110 1100011
  • Amount of stanzas: 26
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 106
  • 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:

    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; la, quand, te, l, le, vre, m, tier are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words la, et are repeated.

    The author used the same words oh, et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Un Jeune Qui S'En Va;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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