This is an analysis of the poem Dans La Clairière that begins with:

Pour plus d’agilité, pour le loyal duel,
Les témoins ont jugé, qu’elles se battraient nues....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXa XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11100101010 11111011101 110010100100 11110111000 11001110010 011011111110 11001111101 110111110110 1111010111 11111101111 1111101111011 1100011100010 11010011111 1111001111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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, le, ces are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words les, ces are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines robe is repeated).

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

  • summary of Dans La Clairière;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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