À Jean Aicard by Jean Aicard: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem À Jean Aicard that begins with:

D'un poète sans voix, accepte aussi l'hommage :
Deux heures tu m'as bercé de ton divin langage,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX aXaX XXXX XXaX bbXX X XXbX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101010 110111011010 110110111 1110110111 11101011101 11111011001 11101111110 1111110 1101001101 110011110100 11011010110 1101101111101 1111011111 010110110110 11111111 11001110100 11101111010 0101111000110 010101101000 110001110111 11110111010 001110011111 1111111010 111110101110 11101 1111111 111111 11111110 1011 11100 11010 11111 111 1111 11110 1111 110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; pour, qui, les, un are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words deux, ta are repeated.

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

  • summary of À Jean Aicard;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

More information about poems by Jean Aicard

Poems about...
✕