This is an analysis of the poem L'Héautontimorouménos (The Man Who Tortures Himself) that begins with:

L'Héautontimorouménos
Je te frapperai sans colère...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabX XXXX cXXcdXXdXeXX XXXX eXXX F bbgg XaXh igdc djJi Xkbl bgmb nlbm X X nlln onno edde dkkd dpXd dnnd mXfm m X nddn ikki iddj eppe iooi fXkf ehhe k XF gngnhhhhcddc njJngllgghhg mhhm g X jggi pnXp cXnc djjd fbbf fmmf ekke X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,12,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,2,12,12,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100000 11110011 1111110 11010 111100110 11001100 10110110 11110 1111100 11101101 111110100 11101000 11101111 1111111101 110110 111010 1111111 10111111 11111101 11101010 1111110 111111010 111010111 111110111 11101010 111011010 1011100 111010 111110110 0111001 11110110 10111010 110101 10111111 010010011 01011010 10101001 01011101 10101101 10111111 10101011 1011001 111010 00100100 10010100 1111111 10110100 11100110 11010010 010101 11011010 1101101 11010101 10110100 00100111 10110101 01001010 1111101 010110100 1000000 11110101 10110111 11011101 10111101 01010011 01110001 110101111 01110111 10111101 01111101 01011101 11110101 11110101 01010001 10010001 11111101 00110101 00111101 110101100 10010101 11011101 011101110 011101110 01001111 10011101 01011111 01010101 01111101 0101110 1010000 11011011 11011100 01010101 11010101 01010101 11010001 10110101 01100111 01100101 10011111 11010101 01110100 11111111 00110111 101100111 01100101 01011111 01011111 01011111 11010111 11011101 01110010 11010101 010101001 11011101 10110101 011100101 01111111 0101110 1000000 0111001 11101111 11010011 11011101 01111101 10010100 011101010 100111010 11011101 10110101 10111101 11010111 11100111 11100101 00010100 10010100 11111101 10110101 10011101 110100101 11000101 11010111 01110111 11111101 10110111 10011111 01011101 10010101 11000101 0101110 100000 11101100 11110101 11011101 11111111 001010011 11010011 01111110 01010111 10010101 1011110 11111101 11011101 11110101 011100100 10010100 11111111 10110101 11011100 11010100 01010101 11011101 11011111 11010101 01010101 11111101 11010111 11110101 11111101 10101110010111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 46
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 187
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, suis, je, et, i, yet, and, all, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words je, i, it's, the, will, it are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines s, it are repeated).

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

  • summary of L'Héautontimorouménos (The Man Who Tortures Himself);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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