This is an analysis of the poem A L'Enfant Malade Pendant Le Siège that begins with:
Si vous continuez d'être ainsi toute pâle
Dans notre air étouffant,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXaX XbXb XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110011011 110110 111111011110 110111 1111011111011 111110 110111111110 11011 11111010011 11110 1011011011 111010 111110111101 01110 11111011101 11110 11111111111111 1111 111110110111 111100 111111111111 101110 11111011011 1111110 1110101110111 101100 11011011111 10100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; vous, si are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word si is repeated.
The author used the same word si at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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