This is an analysis of the poem To Music (À La Musique) that begins with:

On the square which is chopped into mean little plots of grass,
The square where all is just so, both the trees and the flowers,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abca bXad abbb bbaX Xdaa dbbb ebXb eaXb cbba X X XXXX dXXX XbXX XXaX bXXX XbXb XXXX XXXb XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110100110101 01110111011010 10101110111 111101100100 01010100100010 11100010010 101101101101 0100110100111 101101111111 110111011110 111110010010 11111001101 1011001101 10010110101 10011010 1111010101101111 101001101001 0110100101010 1001011001111 110101001 010110110010 11001101001 1010110110010110 10010011110 11111010001010 10011001011 11110111101 10111100011 111011111101 010111010011 11100110011010 001101010010 11010011010 1101110100110 11101110100110 1110010101011 01001 110 11111100100 1110101110111 110110100110 101101110100 10100101010 10110111110 10101101010 0101110010 11010100111 111010101101 1100110010 101110111010 1111111010 110001010111 110010011 1101101100111 10111110011 1011011010 10110101011 1110101100 011101100110 110100101101 11110110110 1001111011 111111110 1110011100100 10010111011 111111010100 11111111111010 11011110110 111100111110 011011111 11111001 111001110110 1011011111011 1111010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 76
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; his, of, i, and, les, s, des, je are repeated.

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

  • summary of To Music (À La Musique);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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