This is an analysis of the poem Chanson Dans Le Sang that begins with:

Il y a de grandes flaques de sang sur le monde
où s'en va-t-il tout ce sang répandu...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaaXXbXbXcXdXecXeXXXXXXaXXXXX XXaX fXeXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXeXXeXdfdeffXfXXcXXXXXXXXXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,4,13,35,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100101001101 1111111110 0111110111111 1010010 111101 111111111 111111010 111000101101110 1111 01011 10111 111111100111 11001010 1111 1110110110110 11101101001 11011010010101110 1111 11 11110110100111010 111 11 111010 10111010 1111111110 0111001110 01011 10111101110 0111010100011101110 10111110011 11100 101010 101011101 111 11110 11 11111 010011 1110 110111 111110 101100 1010011000 11011 1001101100101010 01111111 10110011101100 11001 111111011 1110000111100110 10110111111 100111101111 1111111 011111 1111010 0111010 1111111110 0111001100 110110110 10101110101100 11111110 1011110 10011 11110110 111010110001 110001 1101101 111101 101111 1101111 110 1011111 11101 101111 111111 11111 101110110 101101011 111110110110110 1111101100 11000 11000 110 1111111111 10111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 581
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 86
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; le, de, temps, ses, elle, tourne, et, sang, des, la, s, comme, avec, les are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words elle, le, et, avec, la, les are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines s is repeated).

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

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

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