This is an analysis of the poem Explication that begins with:
La terre est au soleil ce que l'homme est à l'ange.
L'un est fait de splendeur ; l'autre est pétri de fange....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXXX XXbbXXX XXXXXXaXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,11,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101111011 1011010101101 1101011101010 10111111010 111110111110 0010101101 110001011011 111001100011 11101111101 11101110111 111110100101 111011001 101011010101100 110111011111 11101101001 101110111 1110111100 101001010 1110111110 1010010110 101001010 110111101110 1101111111101 110110111110 111001111100 101010110100 1111011110 10100110111 1001110110 1111110110 1010111010 1011010001 1110101110010 1111001100110 11001110 10001011010 1001101101110 1110111011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 457
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 38
- 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; est, plus, le, des, s are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ceux is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Explication;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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