This is an analysis of the poem Aux Feuillantines that begins with:
Mes deux frères et moi, nous étions tout enfants.
Notre mère disait: jouez, mais je défends...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX XXa XXa XXX XXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111110 1011011111 10111111010110 101110110 11010101110 111011110110 110111100010 11111110010 1011101110100 1101110111 11111110110110 111110111110 11110110100 11010111110 11001011011 11010111110 110011111011 1000111110 11111101010 10111011000 11011011010 111011111011 1001111010 010111110011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; nous, le are repeated.
The author used the same word nous at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word lire at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Aux Feuillantines;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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