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

Désireux que j’étais d’un songe bien morose,
J’avais pris, l’autre soir, une assez forte dose :...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXX XXbX X XccdXXXXXXe X XXcXXXXc XXXXXaXX X XXXfeXXeXXXX X ddb XffcXXXXX XfXX g XXX XXXXf g XXccXXXXXX X XXXXccXXXXXX X XeX XcXXaXcXX X XaXXeeXX Xc a XXeXXXXXXX XXXh XhXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,1,11,1,8,8,1,12,1,3,9,4,1,3,5,1,10,1,12,1,3,9,1,8,2,1,10,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111101 1011111011 101101111100 010101101100 01011100000 0101000101000 11111010010 1010111100 01101001011 11101110011 11101100100 111000111100 11101011101 10111011110 11100111110 1011111000 11110001001 100101111001 110110111100 11110110010 1 11111110110 111100110 01101011010 11110100111 110111101100 110111110 1101111010 01001110110 1011010001 011101101100 1101001101 1001110111 1110101101010 111101110011 111101011001 1110011110 1 101011111111 011100101 1111011110 110101111111 11010010111 1111001110 110011111011 110110101100 1011010110 101111111010 01010100011 1111011010 1 1101111111110 1011110111 1001101111101 1110011111101 1010101101000 101110110100 1000110011 1100111110 10011110011 111100110100 110110110 11100111111 10010110110 111011101 10011101110 111101011 1 100010110010 101100110111 110110111110 1110111110 1110011111 1100111010 1111100011 1110100111001 1 1110111101 1110110011 1101011110 11101111001 10001110100 111000011110 0100111011111 10101111011 100110111011 1111111101 1 110111000 1110111000 01101110100 11011010110 11111111101 11111111110 110111111011 1111100110011 10111010100 1110001111 10010110011 100100110011 1 1110001010 110101111011 10111110111 11111011010 11100111001 11010101101 11101101010010 1001100100010 1111011100 0101110110 11110101111 11101001010 1 11110111111 11110101001 1111000111 10100011101 11001110010 101011010 101001111 011101001 10111110010 110101111001 1 11110101110 1111010001 111011010111 1110011101100 101111010 111011010 100001101100 11111110010 1011111100 1010111110001 110110 11010110100 110110 1110101111 11111011 1111011111 10111110 110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 31
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 152
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; d, un, de, la, s, vos, re, des, j, et, je, le are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, j, je are repeated.

    The author used the same word de 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 ve, s, re, che, ant, faste, lire, ge are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase libert connects the lines.

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

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

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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