This is an analysis of the poem A Ceux Qui Sont Petits that begins with:

Est-ce ma faute à moi si vous n'êtes pas grands ?
Vous aimez les hiboux, les fouines, les tyrans, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXbbXXXcXXcXXXdXaaXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXdXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 64,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111111111 110110110110 0100101111 1110011110 111111111 11111010111 11111111101 111101111 1110111111 1011011111 11101111010 1100111111100 110111001111 1101111100 010111011100 11100011110 11010111111 1100111011 111011111 1111110011 01001011010 1111111110 011011101011 1110101 11001011001 111111001111 1111110111 11010110110 11110111010 1100011010 110110010101 110011110011 111111101 1101111111 111110111 110111110110 11011111010 1110110000 11011011111 1111011110100 01111010011 1011101111 110101011011 11100011011 111110101110 1101011110 11010110111 111100111111 110110111111 1010110111 111101001111 11011111111 110110110110 11110111011 10110010011 11111101 111011111 10110011000 1110101111 01111010110 11101010011 11111011011 10101011111 1010110111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3159
  • Average number of words per stanza: 591
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, vous, et, trop, pour, la, que, sans are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines fond, fend, s, te, ve, nuit are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase vous connects the lines.

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  • summary of A Ceux Qui Sont Petits;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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