This is an analysis of the poem Cléo De Mérode? that begins with:

Une très fine statuette
Étonne au Salon tous les yeux...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXb XXba XXXa XXXX XXXX XXaX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 111101 1101111 1110011 0111101 111111 101111 10010101 110011 110110110 111100 10010110 1010011101 1111011 1110111 1111011 110001011 11111101 10100110 11101011 111111 11100110 1011010 1100111 111100 111111 10110010 110010 111111111 10101 110100 11111110 101110 10101 1101001 1100101 1010111 11100110 1011110 111101100 1011111 0111111110 1101100 01010110 111101100 11101011 101111 11111101 011100 1111111110 1111000 0111110 1101010 11011 111011111 111001 11101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; t, le are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word la is repeated.

    The author used the same word les at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

  • summary of Cléo De Mérode?;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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