This is an analysis of the poem À Médor that begins with:
Heureux Médor, si j’ai bonne mémoire,
Je t’ai connu jadis maigre et hideux ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXA XXXXXXXA XXXXXXXA bXbXXaXA XcXcXXXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 11110101110 1111111 1010110011 101111110 10111101 1101101110 110011110 111010101 101111110 11110101011 11011010 11101111010 1110111100 1110011011 110011110 111111010 111010110 11011110 101011011 1111111111 1111010110 1100010110 110011110 1101111011 1111001 11111111 101010111 11011111001 11001110 1111111110010 110011110 11111101 11101110111 110011010 010111011 11111111 1101011100 10111011111 110011110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; j is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word si is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word secret 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 À Médor;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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