This is an analysis of the poem La Révolte that begins with:

Vers une ville au loin d'émeute et de tocsin,
Où luit le couteau nu des guillotines,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXa XXX aaX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111010 11010111000 1110111111 11100101 011101 1011111 01011101 1111101 1111010 11011100 10110110 10011000 111110110 1011110 11000110 10111010 11100100 011000100 11010111 1111101 110111 1111100 111110 10110111 11111111010 1100101011 111100 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, les, c'est are repeated.

    The author used the same word c'est 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 s is repeated).

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

  • summary of La Révolte;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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