This is an analysis of the poem Le Papillon Malade that begins with:
Las des fleurs, épuisé de ses longues amours,
Un papillon dans sa vieillesse...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXX XXXXXaXXXXXXabXXXXXX XXcbXXXX XXdXXXcXXXdX XXXX XbXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,20,8,12,4,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111011010 11001110 11001011111 1011011110 110111101010 100110100011 1001100110 011101 1101111111100 100101111110 01110111 101110101101 110011011010 10111011101 110011110 101010 1111111111 1101110 11110011111 1111101110010 110110110110 111100100101 11111110110 11101111101 1110110110 110001011010 1101101110110 11111110 111101001110 111101 1110111110 1101110111 110011100 1001110100 1010101010100 110100110100 1111011101100 10110111110 1011101 111111010 101111110 0101111110 0101011111111 101111111100 10110111101 1111100111010 11100111111100 11111101010101 10100100 1100101111 111111011 01011100 11111111011 111011111 11001010111010 111110101100 11101110111 101110101011 111101110010 1111011011 11111111011 11111111110 11110111111 1110011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 483
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; s, je, me, et, tant are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
The author used the same word ' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Le Papillon Malade;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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