This is an analysis of the poem Les Enfants Pauvres (Poor Little Children) that begins with:

Prenez garde à ce petit être ;
Il est bien grand, il contient Dieu. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXa XXXX XXXX XXbX a cdcdb ededX fgfga
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,1,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101 101111101 11010101 11001011 11111101 11011111 11111110 11110110 111110 10100111 11100101 10110111 110100 01110 1111110 11101111 1110111 11111100 1111011 11010110 11010 1010111 11101010 11101001 10101010 11010 1010101 10101110 11101001 10101010 11010 1000101 10101010 1011101 10111110 11010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; le is repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Les Enfants Pauvres (Poor Little Children);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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