This is an analysis of the poem Souvenir De Jacquemart that begins with:

Grand artiste couché sous la terre éplorée,
Vaincu frappé debout sous la pierre étendu,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXa XXX XXX
  • 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: 11011111 10110110110 110101110 1111010111 10111011101 11100111010 011100110 111111101 1101111011 11101010110 1101011110 101000110 11100111111 1111011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; l is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, rien are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words e, re 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 Souvenir De Jacquemart;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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