This is an analysis of the poem À Rhéa that begins with:

C'est la Muse elle-même, ô Rhéa, qui t'inspire,
Et t'ouvre à deux battants la porte du succès....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 11111111110 111101101 1111110001 110111011100 0111000101011 11111110110 10010111011 010101101010 111001110011 101111110011 11110110100 111011101110 10111011110 10111011 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; la, de are repeated.

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

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

  • summary of À Rhéa;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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