This is an analysis of the poem Québec that begins with:

Comme un factionnaire immobile au port d'arme,
Dans ces murs où l'on croit ouïr se prolonger ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXb XXXX XXXX XXXb XXXX XXaX XXXX XXXc XXXX XXXX XcXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100010111 111111111100 0111011110 1101011110 1110001011 1111101111 01010011100 101100110001 1101101100100 1101111110 111100111010 01111011110 11111011011000 1001110101 10110111001100 111110111010 10101101110 01111010011 101010011001 01110110011111 1001111111110 10101011010 110101101010 101011110 11111010 1110110110 1110101100010 111001010100 101111111 1101111001 110100110011 111010111010 1111100101 1010111010 10010111 100111100 11011111100 100110101011 1101010101110 010101111011 111111110100 11010110100 111110101100 11101101110 101011111011 101101010101 0111111111 1111100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, aux, de, les are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word les is repeated.

    The author used the same words au, tant at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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