This is an analysis of the poem Vive La Beauté that begins with:

Dès l’aurore quand pour boire
Adam Billaut se levait,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXa aXbcXXXX XdXdXeXe fgfgXXeX fXfXXXXX cXXXbXXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 10101110 110111 11011 1111010 11111100 111011 111111100 11011110 1010110 11111010 110011 1101111 1101111 11100 1111100 1001111 101010 0111111 101110 100110 1011001 1110111 11110111 11110100 1110101 10110110 1111101 10011110 10111110 1111111 111111 1110011 11111110 1111 11110 1011 111010 1111011 1111101 1111001 111110 1101111 1111110 110111110 100010 1111111 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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

  • summary of Vive La Beauté;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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