Dialogue by Emile Verhaeren: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Dialogue that begins with:

... Sois ton bourreau toi-même
N'abandonne le soin de te martyriser ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XaXXXXX XXbbXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,7,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101111 10001011000 0101011110 11011111 1111111 110110101110 11111111011110 1111011010 11011101111 1011110001111 1101111001 111001011010 111111001110 1011111000110 1101101010010 10100011100 111010110 111011110011 101000110100 0110111011110 101110010111 10011101110 11100011001 111011101110 1110111100100 11101100101 110101010010 111101110100 110011111110 011011011110 1110101101 010010011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 496
  • Average number of words per stanza: 88
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, et, ton, sois, de are repeated.

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

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