Peut-Être by Emile Verhaeren: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Peut-Être that begins with:

Peut-être
Lorsque mon dernier jour viendra, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXAXbXX XXXbXX XXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 1110110 11 111 11111010 10111100 11100 11101101100 1011111111110 110011011110 1101111111 111011111110 01011101010110 011110111111 1110110111 110010110110 111011011111 11101101110 1011111110 11010110010 111111011 11111010111 11111100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; tre, et, de, qui are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tre, es, livres are repeated).

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

  • summary of Peut-Être;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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