This is an analysis of the poem La Prison that begins with:
Comme les hauts piliers des vieilles cathédrales,
Ô rêves de mon coeur, vous montez ! Et je vois...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXa XXa
- 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: 11110110100 10111011111 1010111001100 010111100 11111111000 1110111111 10111110111 1110101111 10110110110 1111011111 11100110110 101111101100 10101101110110 1111001110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; des is repeated.
The author used the same word comme at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of La Prison;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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