This is an analysis of the poem Chant Sur Le Berceau that begins with:
Je veille. Ne crains rien. J'attends que tu t'endormes.
Les anges sur ton front viendront poser leurs bouches....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXaX XXXX XbXb XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111011100 1101111010110 111111111110110 100 11110110111111 01111101101 11111011011 10 010111110110 1111111101010 10111001110100 110 10111100100110 111110110110 11011101110 10 101110110100 1101111110 11111101101 101 1010110110100 111111111011 1011101100100 11 110100001101 10111011110 11111111111010 100 11110011110 10111011111 11111011110 1 111010100101 110111111110 11110001111 1 1101011110 10111111111 101101111110 01 1111010111 11111011101 011011101011 1
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; il, leur, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word il is repeated.
The author used the same words je, il, s'il at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Chant Sur Le Berceau;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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