This is an analysis of the poem L'Enfance (Childhood) that begins with:
L'enfant chantait; la mère au lit, exténuée,
Agonisait, beau front dans l'ombre se penchant ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXbX XXXX c bdbd caca eaea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,1,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111011111 100011111110 11110110111 11011110011 11101111011 110111101101 111101111 11010110111 111010111001 101011110110 11001111110111 11111111010 11 0111010101 1101111101 1111010101 11010011101 0101010101 0101010111 1011010101 1111110101 0101010101 0111000101 1001110101 1111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; la, et, le, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same words l'enfant, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of L'Enfance (Childhood);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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