This is an analysis of the poem Le Chant Des Voyageurs that begins with:

À nous les bois et leurs mystères,
Qui pour nous n'ont plus de secrets !...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXabXXXBX XXXXXXXXBX XXXXXXXXBX XaXXbXXXBX XXXXbXXXBX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110 11111010 010111010 111111 0110010 1101010 01110110 11001110 1111111 1101100 10111110 10111100 101111111 10110001 110110 11011110 1101101 1011111 1111111 1101100 11101110 1110001 110010110 11001101 11011111 1010110 0111110 11101110 1111111 1101100 1111110 10110110 110001010 01011110 111110 1111101 11100110 111111 1111111 1101100 1101110 10011111 1100110 11000100 11011110 1111110 11101101 11010110 1111111 111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nous, la, nos are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word voyageurs at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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

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

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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