This is an analysis of the poem Voyant L'Ambition, L'Envie, Et L'Avarice, that begins with:

Voyant l'ambition, l'envie, et l'avarice,
La rancune, l'orgueil, le désir aveuglé,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa aXXa XXX aaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1010011100 110100110 1110101011 011001010 1011111110 0110001110 110101011 10111111101 1111011110 1011011001 101101101 110110110 11101100101 111001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; de is repeated.

    The author used the same word voyant at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

    The poet repeated the same word e 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 Voyant L'Ambition, L'Envie, Et L'Avarice,;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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