This is an analysis of the poem Le Poète that begins with:

Je me souviens ce soir de ce drame indien
Le Chariot d'Enfant un voleur y survient...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXX XXXXX XXX XXXX XXXXXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,3,4,7,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101101110 010010110110 110101111110 1111001010 10111111111 11111011 1110111 100111011 11001111111110 110110110111 11100111100 110111111111 11101111 10010010101 11111101111010 11010101111 10101011100 10111111011 11100111101 101111111100 1011011010 111111110110 111111111110 11010110 11011111110 111101111 101110011 111111110 1111101111 100110111001 101010010 0101111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; de, nous, la, et are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).

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

  • summary of Le Poète;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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