This is an analysis of the poem Jour D'Orient that begins with:
Ce fut un jour pareil à ce beau jour
Que, pour tout perdre, incendiait l'amour !...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aA XXXXXXXX bXbXXXXX XXXaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,8,8,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110111 111110010 11101001 11111010 111110 111110011 110111001 11101111 110001001 1001101110 111111111 111101111 1111101111 1011111101 11101011011 10111011 1101101 11111111011 111011110 1101111110 11110111 111110010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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; jour, de, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, pour are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Jour D'Orient;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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