This is an analysis of the poem Lettre Du Mexique that begins with:

« Vous m’avez confié le petit. – Il est mort.
Et plus d’un camarade avec, pauvre cher être....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba cXXX XXXd Xd cX XeXe XaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,2,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110100101011 11110010111 101101110011 10101101 11110100111 10111011110 1010110101 11000011 111110011111 1011110011 110100111111 11111010 1101101111 11001110110 010101001111 01010000 10010111110 11111110101 110011111100 11010111 11101010111 11110111110 1101111110 11001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; est, il, un, re are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word le is repeated.

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

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

  • summary of Lettre Du Mexique;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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