Oh! Laisse Frapper À La Porte by Emile Verhaeren: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Oh! Laisse Frapper À La Porte that begins with:

Oh ! laisse frapper à la porte
La main qui passe avec ses doigts futiles ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXX XXX XaXa XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,3,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011 111111011100 10101101101100 011011100 1101010 1111001 1011011 11011 111001 11011111001 100111010 10101001 10011101010 11011101 11101011 0111111 1011010 1111111110 10101111001 11110111101 101111011 1100111001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; laisse, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.

    The author used the same word laisse 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 e is repeated).

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