This is an analysis of the poem Je Prendrai Par La Main Les Deux Petits Enfants that begins with:

Je prendrai par la main les deux petits enfants ;
J'aime les bois où sont les chevreuils et les faons, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111111010 11111110111 111101011010 1111011101110 1110111110 101100110111 11011001010110 1110111111100 1111101111011 1010101010 10101010011 111111011101 10111010011 1110101110 1111101110 11110111011 101110111110 11110010011 110011110011 1100011100 101101101100 1111110101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1098
  • Average number of words per stanza: 189
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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, que, des, leurs are repeated.

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  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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