This is an analysis of Le Bataillon Scolaire by Henri Chantavoine.

Petits enfants, petits soldats,
Qui marchez comme de vieux braves,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba XXXX XXbX XXXX XXbb XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 10101010 1101011 10111011 11101111 10101010 1110110 1100110 1101011 11011101 1101100 10011111 01011100 11011010 0111100 110100111 11110 11011010 0100010 11001101 01010011 11001010 1110110 1010111 0101101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 25