This is an analysis of the poem Moïse that begins with:

... Et, debout devant Dieu, Moïse ayant pris place,
Dans le nuage obscur lui parlait face à face....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bbcDXXaXXX XXXXbbXaXXbX cD XXXXXXXXXXXXXXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,10,12,2,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010111011 10110101011 110110111100111 110111111111 1110110101101 111100010011 11111111111 110011111010 111111110 011010110100 110101010101 111011111110 1101101101100 11111011011000 1011010111 1111110010110 11101110110 110110011100 11100111111 100101000110 11011011101 111111110 111111111110 11111110 111110101101 111100010011 111101010010 11111111101101 1111110101101 11101111111 111101110010 1101110110010 10001001101 11101111111 1111111101 1101111101110 11110111101 1001111101111 101010110101 1111111110 1011101101 1111000100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 405
  • Average number of words per stanza: 74
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • 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; ', et, ma are repeated.

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

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

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

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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