This is an analysis of the poem À Une Dame Créole (To A Creole Lady) that begins with:
Au pays parfumé que le soleil caresse,
J'ai connu, sous un dais d'arbres tout empourprés...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXX XbX XXc XD ccce Xfag dbc aac X bd gcXX hffh dgd aag X XD eccd Xfab dbc faa X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,2,4,4,3,3,1,2,4,4,3,3,1,2,4,4,3,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110100110 11011110110 101011111110 11111010 1101111111000 01011110010 11111011100 110011011110 11101011101 111011010111 111010110 110101100100 10110101110 111110110111 1 001010 000110101010 111001000101 110110010011 0101011001 0010011101100 0101010010001 1110111010 0101101100 011100011010 1010010101011 101010011010 110010011001 010101001010 111111101111 010110100 11 00010010 0101010101 1101010101 1101010111 01010001100 11111100010 0100010001 1011110101 11011111010 11110001010 010101111110 01001101010 1111011101 110101011 11010111010 0101110 1 001010 01011001101 1111001000101 11101000101 0101001010 01011101100 1100101001 1110101010 0101010101 01111000110010 101001010011 110101011010 01101010101101 01010001010 111111101111 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, de, her, and, of, in are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word s at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of À Une Dame Créole (To A Creole Lady);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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