La Croix D'Honneur by Hégésippe Moreau: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem La Croix D'Honneur that begins with:

Quelle profusion rare
La cour étale à présent !...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXAX abaXbXbXAX XXXXbXXXAX XbXXaXaXAX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101 1111 111110 1111100 11100100 111110 11111000 11001110 1101 1001110 111010 11111011 1110100 1111101 111111 1101 1111011 111011 1101 1001110 01011111 0101100 110101 1110101 11011100 11110 1111000 11100110 1101 1001110 1111100 111111 10101000 110010 110100 0110101 1010011 1001001 1101 1001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5

  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; des, d are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word honneur at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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

  • summary of La Croix D'Honneur;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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