This is an analysis of the poem À Narcisse Quellien that begins with:
Les bardes d’Armorique étaient de bonnes gens
Et qui regardaient tout d’un œil pas trop sévère....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001011 11100111111 110111110111 11011111000 10110010011 110011111011 11101111010 11111010110 010010111111 1101111111 111101111111 101101110110 111010111110 10110011100 11010011110 11101110010 10110101010 111101011 10011111110 110100111100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ils, un are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ils, leur are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of À Narcisse Quellien;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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