This is an analysis of the poem L'Attente that begins with:

Et c'est au long de ces pays de sépulture,
En ces marais, qui sont bourbeux depuis mille ans, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXXXX XbXXX XXXXbbcXXX dXXbXXaX XXbXXXXXXXXXbXdXX XXXXXcXXXXXXXXXd XXXXX bXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,5,10,8,17,16,5,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111011010 111111101011 1101111100 11110101100 11111110 110011001110 100 100110011111 1011001001 10010111 1001010111 1110101 11100011 11001111 1010101 110010110 10110011011 0110011010 01101111011 10011110 10101001110 1001111001 101010110 11101110 011100 1110010101 1010101110 11110101010 101011 1010110110010 101100011100 101111110100 11100011 1001111111 1110 010001 0111110 11111111 0111110100 11101000110 1011100 011101110 0111111 111101011111 0111001000 1101001001 1010101110 1110110101 1110 111010 1110101001110 101110010 10001111010 11101011110 11111011 111011 111001100100 10011100 110110101111 1100110010 1110111010 01011101 1111101110 010100101111111 110101111100 1110111010 1101111011010 1101011 1101101101 1010111101 111001101011 1111101011 111110111 101001010 11101010001 110110101 111101100 1101001101 11111110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 356
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 79
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; de, et, e, la are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words avec, oh are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, tre are repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of L'Attente;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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