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

Et je voudrais aussi ma couronne d'épines
Et pour chaque pensée, une, rouge, à travers...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101011010 11111110 01100101001100 11110111111 111111110111 1111111111 1101010110 11101111001 11010110010 010010110010 011011111 100111110110 111000111101 1110101101 111001101100 111010011010 1111011110110 1110100110 1011100100 101111111110 11101111100 1001101100 11111101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1056
  • Average number of words per stanza: 199
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • 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; les, et, comme, mes, de, ma are repeated.

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

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

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

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