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

À l’heure où, pâle encore, le jour hésite à naître,
Une étrange rumeur passa sous ma fenêtre,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX aXXXXX XXXXXX XXbXbX XXXXXX aXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110111 111010111 11111110100 1111100111110 11111111110100 1011010 111101011010 1011111110110 1011111010010 10101101010 01001110011 111101 1111110011 01100110110 11101010110 1111111110101 1111100111110 111001111 1111101111 111110110011 110110110011 011110111111 10101111111 10110110 11111111 111101111 11101111110 1011101110 110110111100 11101010 1111111110 101011110 110110110111 01101011101 11010111011 0110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; le, il, qui, e, t, l are repeated.

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

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

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

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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