La Béatrice by Charles Baudelaire: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem La Béatrice that begins with:

Dans des terrains cendreux, calcinés, sans verdure,
Comme je me plaignais un jour à la nature,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXXXXXX aaXXXXXXXX bXXXXXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,10,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011010110 11111011110 11011110110 100100111010 111111010111 1111111 1101100110 100111110 0110010011110 111101111100 11110011100101 11011111001 1001011000 11110100110 00110111011 111100011110 11110110011 1111100011 10100110110 110110110111 11111100110100 10110101100 101110101111 0101110111 1010011100 111111110111 11111100001 11011101110 111010111 1110101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 451
  • Average number of words per stanza: 87
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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, les are repeated.

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

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

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

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