This is an analysis of the poem Le Masque (The Mask) that begins with:

Statue allégorique dans le goût de la Renaissance
Contemplons ce trésor de grâces florentines;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XXXXaXa XXXbXXXcX XX XaXaXXXXX XXX XXXda E a ffghiba ifXbdXfXX bij iagaaXiib faa gbbXa X E h jccjcjj ccece Xfgfeie iaagggiig aae bbecc h E h cacakak abdbdXXgaede dababjbXb Xbablala Xe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,9,2,9,3,5,1,1,7,9,3,9,3,5,1,1,1,7,5,7,9,3,5,1,1,1,7,12,9,8,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110010101101 10011011000 11000011100 101111001100 1110101000 100010100001 0111111110 110110110111 10111011100 11101110 110110100110 1101011001 11111101110 11010110110 11101010 11110011001 10011010011 1010110 11111010001000111101110 111110111100 110111010 1101011000 11011111 101001111 11101001 01110011110 1101011110 111110110011 1101111110 110110101010 11101111 111011001 1110111101 101111110010 11011110111 0110111011 01 101001100100101 111101010110 001000001010 1011010001101 010010010010 10001001001 0100100011001 101010001101 111101001100 1101010100 111001101100 1101100101 1100101000101 1011111101 011001011100 110101011100 1111110101000 1100011001 110010110001 101100011010 110101010100 110010101010 1110100010 0111001100 0111010101 110010001001 0111001101 1111111111001 101011110010 110110100110 111101010101 110100111101 1010101111 1011111101 1110101001 0101101101101 011100111111 010110100 01 110001101011 10010100010 1100110001 1101010001 01010100110 0101100111 11010101010 11111100010 110110001 1101000101 11001010111 0101110101 11010010101 10011111110 10001101010 1100010001 01110101010 1100111101 0101010001 1101001101 1101011111 1010110010 1001110101 10100001101 1011110101 1111001101 1111100011 1111010101 11010010111 1111111101 1101010101 1101011111 1101111111 1011111111 1101110111 0101111111 0111010111 0101110 01 1101001101011 010101010101 10010101110 011000100101 0101011110100 11011110101 1110111111100 010101000111 011101110100 110001011111 010100011101 110101010011 11001010111001 110111110101 1011010011000 110101010011 111111010111 110001110001 110101010011 110100010101 10010101001 110101010010 11100101110010 0100110010101 1101110111010 1101000100110 011111111101 0101111101100 0101011110011 1100111100010 110111110101 1101001110111 110111111101 1111101100010 110101110100 0101011111110 011101110111 0101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 32
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 162
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • 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; de, ce, la, elle, demain, this, and, your, she, tomorrow, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ce, and, that, she are repeated.

    The author used the same words mais, behold 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 Le Masque (The Mask);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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