This is an analysis of the poem L'Hérésiarque that begins with:
Et là, ce moine noir, que vêt un froc de deuil,
Construit, dans sa pensée, un monument d'orgueil....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX Xa XX XX XX XX XX XX XX bb XX Xa XX XX XX aa bb XX bX XX XX XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111101 10111110010 101110111000 1011101110100 101111111 11100111110 11111111001 1111011110 11111111001 101011101011 110111011110 10101111010 10010111000 10110110100 10010101100100 10100011101 10101101111 110011100 1011110011011 1011010100 11101110111 1101011111 01101011100 1111111110 0101001010 111111110 01010111000 0110000111100 110110111010 111110101001 10011111111 11111011111 1111011101 1011110010 101101010110 11010011101 11101111110 1110100001 111111011 110100100101 011010111011 10111101011 10111110011 110111010110 101010101101 1010111101 11101101011 1011010010 11110011110 101011001001 101100101100 11010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 87
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, sa, de, le, son, la, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, son, les are repeated.
The author used the same words il, le 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 res, s are repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of L'Hérésiarque;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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