This is an analysis of the poem Les Mois that begins with:

Ambitieux rival des maîtres de la lyre,
Qu’un autre des guerriers échauffe le délire ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXX aabXXXXXXXXXccXXXXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010110011 11110101 1110010010 1010110101 11111011010 1101101001100 101001101110 1111001010 1010101110 10011111001 11110101010 10101111100 10011100101 10110110001 10111011011 10111101110 11101111 110011100111 11010110110 11101111101110 0100001100 1001111110 110011111111 11100011011 10011010100 1101110100 110110110110 00110110100 11011010010 011111011 110111111 1111010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 737
  • Average number of words per stanza: 137
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, de, l, et, la, toi are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words qu, moi, et are repeated.

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

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

  • summary of Les Mois;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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