This is an analysis of the poem Le Retour De L'Abeille that begins with:

Me reconnaissez-vous ? Aux rivages lointains,
Pauvre abeille, j'osai chercher d'autres destins,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XaXXXX bbcddc XXa XXX XXXXXX XXXXdX XXdXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,3,3,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110001110010 11010101010 1111010101101 1001011011 100010110110 1101011100 11110110100 111111111 101110111100 11111111110 1001011010 1110101101010 11110100110 101110111011 11110011100 11111011011 011111111111101 110100111110 1111011110 100110110011 1011011011 1111010101011 0101101101 110111111110 111100110100 10110010100 10011111000 110011111010 1101101010 10010111010 101101101111 110010010100 1111100110 1110001110110 11001111101 111100110010 11001011001011 10011011010 01101011011 11011010110 10111101110 111111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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, de are repeated.

    The author used the same word et 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 pas is repeated).

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

  • summary of Le Retour De L'Abeille;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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