This is an analysis of the poem Le Baptême that begins with:
Je méditais une ode, ou pis peut-être,
Quand tout à coup grand bruit dans le quartier ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXaXX XXXXXXXX bXbXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111111 111111010 11101101 1010101100 1001110111 111111111101 10111101000 111111111 111111 1010101011 101011111 10001011 10101111 111110011 11111010 1111111111 11111111101 101011100 1111111101 10110110 101101110 11110111 1110111001 1111111111 11011110111 110111100 010110111 1111110100 110011011 110110110 11110110110 1111111011 10101010 11011010 110011111 110011110 1101101110 10111101 1101101010 1111110011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tu is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words dors, tu are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word toi at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Le Baptême;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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