This is an analysis of the poem Bénédiction (Benediction) that begins with:

Lorsque, par un décret des puissances suprêmes,
Le Poète apparaît en ce monde ennuyé,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX bcbX XdXX XXXX eXXf XXgX XXXX XhXX XhiX XXXX XXgX iXXX jXjX XkXk XXlX h fmXl fidX dgll hXdX mfXf chgl fgbm Kana ocfg fkmX phXm gmfi MiiX hfmX qfgX ifiX akhg Xdil ifgX X h ngXg mhmX XnXn didX knln lhlh ffff kmkm ijij dkdk mhmh oi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111110010 0110011110 111011010 11111111110 1111111111010 11010110 101111101 11100101100 11111010110 110101110 111111111001110 11101011100 111010011110 1100100110 11110111110 1011101011010 110101011 111100111010 1111111011 111011100 101110010011 11110001 11111011111101 1010101010 11100111001 110110010011 11010111100 10011111011 1110110100101 11100001100 10110101011 11110100110 1011011011 11011101010 101001101101 110010111111 11111110100 100111011100 111001110001 111011111100 1111100011001 0100010101 1101111111110 10011110010 1111100011010 1110011011111 111010110110 1010111110110 1111101101110 10001111011 1110011100 1101010011101 10111111110 01101111 11101010110 10101011010 10111110110 111011100 11110111110 111111010 11111101111 1111001101 111100101 1111011000 11111100110101 1111010111110 110111011001 100111111100 11101001010 11100110011 11111110110 01111011 111110110110 11101110100 1111101110010 1111110100110 1010 110001000110 010011001001 010101110100 10011011100 111111011010 101011001010 100001001001 11100101100 1011011101 0001001101 111101001010 0001111110 111010011111 101100011000 11110101 101011010001 1111010010 111010001001 0101110100 0100110101 110010110110 0111010101 101111010111 11101011010 110001100001 110010101001 101011011100 1011111101 1111111101 1010100100 100001010101 1111100100 001101010101 11101110 11011011110 111001110011 0110101010 101111101001 1110101001 1101100100 11110100011 101000111 0101001111 010101010101 11110010101 111011111101 11111010 01011001 1111010101 11110001 1100110001 01010011001 01101101001 100010011001 1010010000101 10010101 100111111100 1001100110100 1101101010 00101110100 111101011010 01011001010 111011000101 0010010101000 1111000010100 11111101 11011101 11110011100101 10110010100 0101001001 11111110100 11101010010 111001010111 1001010101 101101011010 1111101010 010110100 1010 11110001001 0101000111 0101010010 1001111101 11010101010 10100101010 10010101010 1111011100 1011011111 00110010101 1111010101 0101010001 1101011111 1011111111 1111010001 0101010101 1101011001 1101011101 10100101010 1101000101 10101101010 0111110001 11010111010 0111110101 1101010101 0110010101 0101000101 1001110101 1111011101 1101011101 0101010111 11110100011 0111110101 1101010101 1111010101 1101110001 0111000101 1101111001 0101010101 1111010101 1011101111 1100011101 1001110001 1101110001 11101010111 1111111111 0111010011 0111011001 10111101000 1101110001 101100101010 0100010001 10011101110 0101010111 10110001010 1101110001 101111111 1111010011 1011010001 10010010111 1111010101 10110111110 0100010001 0101011011000 11010100110 1101111101 11011101010 1111010111 1101011001 0101010001 1111110101 0101010110 0100010101 1001000101 0111011101 11010101110 0101110 1010 11010001010 0101011001 01010011010 10010101001 1111010011 10101001010 1001111101 0111011100 1011011101 0011010101 1111100100 1111010001 1101011101 1011011000 1001010101 10010101000 1111010001 1100010101 1100100001 01010110101 11011011010 011101011001 01111111110 01011100100 1101110111 1001010100 1011000101 0101111111 1111111101 1111100100 1101111101 1011101100 0011111011 1101110101 1111110101 1001010101 0110010110 1101111111 1100110001 0010010101 11010100011 0100011101 0101100111 0101110001 1001010101011 1111010101 1111110111 01011001001 1111010101 1111000101 0100010101 01010011001 0101110101 0101011111 1001111101 01010010001 111111101 0101110100 0100010111 0101110100 1101010101 01110111010 1101010100 010010101000 1001010110 0111111101 0111011111 11001110111 1101010111 1001100101 1111011001 01010010100 0101100101 1001010101 1011011101 11110101010 0101110 1010 110101000011 0101010011011 010101111101 110011100101 1111001010101 110101111101 11011010110 111101110101 101101001111 001101010101 111111010001 110101010011 1001010111001 110111001101 111111010001 101111110001 1011010101001 1101010101011 110101100101 10010010011101 110101101101 011011110001 110111110111 110101000101 1000101010001 010110010101 101101001101 011111010101 111101011001 1111111101110 111101011101 101111111000 101001110001 100001101111 110101111001 010011111101 010101011101 111111010101 110100001101 110111100111 111101010111 1001000100101 110111000111 110111111101 1111001010101 1101001110101 111101110101 111111010001 1101111100001 1101010111001 110111110101 110001110001 110110010001010 0100100110101 0101010101110 0101001101101 1101011100101 010001110001 010111010111 1111010010101 111011110101 0101111011100 111111000101 0101011000101 111001010011 110101111101 1111110101001 110101101101 110011010011 1011010011101 011001110101 1100111100101 110101000101 100101110011 100101011101 1101010101100 01011011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 103
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 395
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; et, le, de, la, des, les, my, he, and, him, i, of, to, his, in, all, light are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, he, and, to, for are repeated.

    The author used the same words et, je, i, 'and, 'i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

  • summary of Bénédiction (Benediction);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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