Et Qu'Importent Et Les Pourquoi Et Les Raisons by Emile Verhaeren: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Et Qu'Importent Et Les Pourquoi Et Les Raisons that begins with:

Et qu'importent et les pourquoi et les raisons
Et qui nous fûmes et qui nous sommes : ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100011101110 111111110 1101111100100 111111011111 11111011111110 111110011111 110111101000 111010111010 111110101101 11111000 010110010 1100101110 1010111101 111011010 11010111 111111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; et, nous, qui, que, ne are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word je at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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