Poem Analysis of Chanson De Grand-Père by Victor Marie Hugo for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Chanson De Grand-Père that begins with:

Dansez, les petites filles,
Toutes en rond....

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Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XXaX aXaX XXXX XXaX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1011110 1011 11101100 1110 101111 1011 1100111 1000 1011110 1011 110111 1000 101111 1011 1101011 1000 101111 1011 100110 1011 1011110 1011 1011011 11010
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
Average number of words per stanza: 14
Amount of lines: 24
Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les is repeated.
The author used the same word dansez at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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Chanson De Grand-Père by Victor Marie Hugo: poem analysis

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