This is an analysis of the poem Inconscience that begins with:
L'âme et le coeur si las des jours, si las des voix,
Si las de rien, si las de tout, l'âme salie ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX aXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111111111111 11110111110111 1111101100010 111101111011 10111111011 111001101 11111101111 011111101111 11010111011 11110100110 10111111010 01101000011 1101110101 10011011110 1011111011 11011101110 10100111110 011111111110 01111101100 0011101111011 101011101011 1111011111010 11111010101 101110111100 11011101101 1111111010 10101111100 10011110010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; las, si, de, le, et, des, les are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases appelle, parsifal connect the lines.
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- summary of Inconscience;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Emile Verhaeren
- Analysis of Insatiablement
- Analysis of Je Noie En Tes Deux Yeux Mon Âme Tout Entière
- Analysis of Kato
