This is an analysis of the poem La Romance Du Vin that begins with:

Tout se mêle en un vif éclat de gaieté verte
Ô le beau soir de mai ! Tous les oiseaux en chœur,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111011 01101111011 1011101011 100111110 01101010101 1111111010 11101010101 010101111110 11111111101011 1101111110 11111011011 101110111 1111111110111 1010110111 11110110010 111011101001 10101101011 01110111001 011101110110 110101111110 10111111010 110101101110 111110111100 11011110011 1011101111 11011011001 101100111111 111111101 1111111110101 111100111101 1011111101001 101101110101 11011010110 11010110101 11111111110 11111110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • 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; le, de, je, verse, des, et, suis, gai are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words des, de, je are repeated.

    The author used the same word je 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 ur, es, bres are repeated).

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

  • summary of La Romance Du Vin;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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