This is an analysis of the poem Prologue that begins with:
J'ai détourné mes yeux de l'homme et de la vie,
Et mon âme a rôdé sous l'herbe des tombeaux....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XbXX aXXb XXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011011 1110111110 111101101 111110111110 11011111101 11110010101 1101101111000 101101111111 10111101011 11011100010 1111001011 111010110111 010110111110 01100011100 11101010100 1110110110 110101110111 111010100010 11001011100 111001100111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; d, de, et, aux are repeated.
The author used the same word j'ai 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 Prologue;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
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