Avec Mes Sens, Avec Mon Coeur... by Emile Verhaeren: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Avec Mes Sens, Avec Mon Coeur... that begins with:

Avec mes sens, avec mon coeur et mon cerveau,
Avec mon être entier tendu comme un flambeau...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXa bXXX XXaXbXXX XXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110111110 101110101110 11111110 111000 111111111110 110111100 1110010 1111100011 1011 1111110 101110111 101111100 1111111111 1100110110 111111 101111001 1111101001101 0110101011 111111111110 1000100010 1111111101100 1001111010 11111011111 1101010011 110111101 10101110100 11111011111 1111010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; avec, mon, de, et are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word avec is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).

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