This is an analysis of the poem Fiat Voluntas that begins with:

Vous me l'aviez donné, vous me l'avez ôté,
Mon cher petit trésor, mon amour blond et rose....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXX XXX aXX
  • 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: 1110111101 11101110111 101111011101 1001101111 11101101110 01101011001 1111010111 110111101 110111110 011110110100 11101111101 11010111111 101111101110 1101111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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; mon, de are repeated.

    The author used the same word vous 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 Fiat Voluntas;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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