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

Au siècle qui s'en vient hommes et femmes fortes
Nous lutterons sans maîtres au loin des cités mortes...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX aXbX XXXX XaXc XXbX XbXX XXXX XXXa XXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111010 1100110111110 11111010011 100011011111 11011011110 1110110001 11101111011111 11110001101 11111111010 1101100001110 111001011110 111110101010 1111011111010 111001111101 1111010110 1111101101111 10101110011110 10111110111111 1111100101111 1111001110110 110101101110 11100101111 101010101010 110111110100 11101011011 1111011011 1111111111 11011110111 1110111100 101110011 111110111110 11111111111 11101101011 001111111110 1111110001101 011101011000
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; les, et, je, voix, la, des, de are repeated.

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

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

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

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

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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