Les Saints by Emile Verhaeren: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Les Saints that begins with:

Dreling, dreling,
C'est la fête de tous les Saints....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XA abXXXcXc Xa XXXXXdXb XA XXXXXXXX XA XdXXXXXX aXXaXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,8,2,8,2,8,2,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010 1110111 11101110 100111101 1011111100 111111 11101110010 111110 1011111 11111011 1010 1110111 1101101110 11111110 10011010 110111 1101111 11111010 11010110 1111000011 1010 1110111 1011100 11101100 0110101 110100110 111111110 11101101 111011100 11011111 1010 1110111 11011110 101111 11101111 11101100 10111011 1111111 1111111 01110101 110010110 110111 10111010 111111010 1011110101110 1111111 111111110 00110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; les is repeated.

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  • summary of Les Saints;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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