This is an analysis of the poem La Fée Et La Péri (The Fay And The Peri) that begins with:

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Enfants ! si vous mouriez, gardez bien qu'un esprit...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a aaXXXXbcXdXXX X AXXbXXXeXXefeXXXXXXXXXXXXg A afXXXXXXXXXXhXXXdXXdXXXcXXifXX X A XXgXXXXXXXXcXXXXjXeXXXXXdXXcXXeXcXXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbbklXhmXX A XXXXXXccXenenXXXkXhhXXXXXXfXcfXXXXXXXXcXXckXXXcmXXXooXXXXXXXXefXXf X XXfXX X X aaaccabbeellllaaiifcbbcfc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,13,1,26,1,30,1,1,60,1,66,1,5,1,1,25,1,28,1,7,7,7,7,7,1,12,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1011101011001 0111111111 101100011110 10110101 10011011010 11110111111 1001001011 1101110110010 10110110111110 101111100010 111000101100 1111001111110 11111111110 1 11 1111111 10111110 1111111 1111011 11111010 110111 11110111 101110 1101111 10110111 11111111 1111101 111111100 1101111 1111110 11111001 11010110 11110111 10111 1110110 1110101 1110111 11110111 11111 110111 11 111111111 111111001 11011 11110110 110100100 1100111110 111111110 1110100 111101100 1110010 1110110 1011010 111111111 111010 11111100 1010111100 1011111 11000110 11110 1110111 111001000 11100101 111101100 1110111 111111 111101111 11011011 1111011 11111111 11111110 1 11 110110110 1001011111111 1111111101 10101111 110111 1110111110 1111111100 1111011110 111100101110 11111011110 11101110 11011101011 11011011000 11001111111110 1011101111100 111010100110 100011100 1110011110 101011011101 01111010100 11010101100 101110101110 1011010 1111001110 1001111111 11111001 1011111010 01111001111 110110100 11101100 11010111011 011110101010 10011111011 11110111100 11110100 1101101011 1111101010100 1111011011100 101100110010 111010110100 01111000 1010110100 110110111000 10110101110 11001111110 110100110010 11110100 010001110110 10011110010 111111110 111000111010 11110101111 1101101 11101110010 10110001001 11010011010 1111011110 10100110111 1111101 1100111111 11 1001001110010 11001111100 1111101110 0101011011 10111111 1011011 110111011110 111001111100 11111011010 111010101 11101111 1110111 1111011010 111101111011 11110110010 1111111111 11011100 11001110 11101001101 1101100111 10001111100 111111110100 11101000 11011100 1111111111100 1001111101000 1111011110 111111101110 11101111 1101010 010010111100 111101101000 11101011110 11011110100 01110100 11101010 1001111010 11011111 11101110111 10101011110 111110 10110111 11110101110 10011010110 1111111011 1100111110000 101101100 11110111 110110111100 0110101100 11101101 1111111111 11010 111101 111100110010 101110110110 11101010110 011111011100 10111000 10010110 011000100111 10101111101111 111010011010 11111111100 11011100 1110101 1 1111011110 1011010100 111010101011 1011001110 11010011 011010 010 10010101 10010101 1110111 0110101 1010101 11110101 1110101 01010101 010101001 11010101 01010101 11110111 01010111 1011111 11010101 110100101 11110101 10001001 1010111 110101 1110101 1011101 11010101 110101001 10010111 01 10010101 0010001 11100101 010100101 0100101 1111001001 101100101 10111111 1000011 10110101 11111111 11111101 1101100101 1011111 01100101 1010111 01010101 11110100 0101010 1010101 110110010 1111010110 1100111 1010111 1001111 11010101 1010011001 10010101 010 1100100101 10110100101 100100101 110110011 001101100 110100101 10010101 11011010101 01101001010 1100100101 11011001011 101110101 0010101001 10101011101 1000110101 1110101101 110010011001 100111010 000101 10100111001 0010000101 11100101 100010100 00100110101 110010111 11010101 10111111 10101011 01010101 100101010 111111101 11010101 1010101 111001001 10011001 01 1001001001 1111100111 10100101001 10100101101 1101011011 10100111101 1011010010010 1010111010010 1001001001 100101110 1011111011 1011111111 01010001 111101010 10110101001 01101101001 011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 450
  • Average number of words per stanza: 82
  • Amount of lines: 326
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, les, des, la, dans, le, mes, my, of, on are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words il, les, j'ai, la, dans, et, and, thy, come, the are repeated.

    The author used the same words la, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, nue, es, porte, re, fay are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word peri at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of La Fée Et La Péri (The Fay And The Peri);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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