This is an analysis of the poem À Nîmes that begins with:
Je me suis engagé sous le plus beau des cieux
Dans Nice la Marine au nom victorieux...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XX Xa XX aX XX XX XX XX XX Xa XX XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110101111 1110111100 101011001000 1111100011001 101110111110 1010011111 10101010111 101101010 111010100011 1101111110 11110011 10101100100 101101100 11101110110 010100111110 1011001110 11010110110 11010111110 011010111110 11110110110 111011010101 111010111110 111111110 110111110101 11110011001 1111101011 111110110110 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 86
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; la, je are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word je is repeated.
The author used the same word je at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase gris connects the lines.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of À Nîmes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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