This is an analysis of the poem Album De Baisers that begins with:
Oui — me dit monsieur Bertillon,
Prince de l’anthropométrie,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.
- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXbX XXXX XXcX cXXX XXXd XXXX XXbX XXXX dXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101100 10100 1101110 1101100 10001101 01100010 111111000 1011111 11110110 111110 1111110 1111110 1111111 11011010 111110010 1010001111 10100110 1100111 111010 11001000 11011001 11111110 11111100 110001101 10111110 10110101 11111010 11110010 11011110 10111100 11101011 111100 111100111 00101110 01011100 111011101 10010110 101101100 111110110 10101111 101110 1110011 111011 1110011 10110110 10100110 110110 1010011 1101111 1010111110 1110011 111110111 1111111000 11101001 11101101 111101 11111110 11111111 11111001 01111110 10000101 10100110 100111110 111011011
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 65
- 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; est, en, le, je are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word le is repeated.
The author used the same word je 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 rique, prise, te are repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Album De Baisers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
Pay attention: the program cannot take into account all the numerous nuances of poetic technique while analyzing. We make no warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability and suitability with respect to the information.
