This is an analysis of the poem Le Glaive that begins with:
Quelqu'un m'avait prédit, qui tenait une épée
Et qui riait de mon orgueil stérilisé :...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX XXXX XaXa XXaX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010111011 111011010 11011111100 1001110100101 111110010110 1011111001110 11001011110 111110111111 111000011011 111110100010 111110100011 110110111011 111110111100 11010110101 111111111 1011110011 1001101101110 111011011110 1111111101 11101111111 1111111111100 01010110010 1111101110100 10010110000
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tes, si, les, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word tes is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Le Glaive;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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