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

Hélas, depuis les jours des suprêmes combats,
Tes compagnes sont la frayeur et l'infortune ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbX bcXX dXXX XaXX XXXe dXdX eXXe XcXX XXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111001 110011101100 11111111001 11111110011 1011111010110 1101011011 11111110111 11111111110 111111111011 1110101110 111011101110 111011100110 111110011 11101111111 11011110010 111101011 1110111010 1101110111 101011010110 101010001011 111011111101 1111111110 111010110111 111101101111 10011010011 1100111101 110011110110 1110110101 0111101111100 1101010111 10101110110 1100101111 110111001011 1000111111 10111111111 11110110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; des, et, tu, tes, la, dans are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words tu, o, et are repeated.

    The author used the same word tu 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 tes, me are repeated).

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

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

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