This is an analysis of the poem Le Talisman that begins with:

Pour la lutte qui s'ouvre au seuil des mauvais jours
Ma mère m'a fait don d'un petit portrait d'elle,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX aXa
  • 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: 11111111101 11111110101 11101111101 111101110010 11001111110 1111100111110 110111110010 1110110101 1110111010 11001011011 10011110110 110101111110 10011111110 11111011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; de is repeated.

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

  • summary of Le Talisman;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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