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

Pour y tasser le poids de tes belles lourdeurs,
Tes doubles seins frugaux et savoureux qu'arrose ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100101110 1101101100100 11111110111 1101111100110 11100111111100 101101101110 11101110110 11011111000 11001101011 111110011101 111011101111 100001111011 111111011000 111010010110 10011111111 1111111110 11101101010 11110010110 111111010 11110100110 111111011010 10101011100 1110101011100 11011011111 1111100101000 11110111100110 10111110110 111101110100 111011110 10111111000 1011110011 01101111100 11110101001 1110111100110 1110011110 110101010100 11101111100 1110010110 101110110 1110011110110 1110111010100 1110111011100 1011111111100 11110110100 11110011010 110011101100 11110111110 10100101110 111011101010 101010110100 1001110111 1100101101110 110010110110 10111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 57
  • 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; tes, vers, les, ni, de, et, en, leurs, des are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word ils 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 te, tes 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 Hommage;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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