This is an analysis of the poem Discours À La Rosière that begins with:

C’est un devoir bien doux pour moi, Mademoiselle,
D’affirmer devant tous que vous êtes… bien telle...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXXbcXdXXX XXeeXfXX XXggXXfXbXaaXX aXhhXXXfXXXeXXccXfXX XgbiXXXXXXXXddXXbXddXXgXXdXX XcXbXXXXigXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,14,20,28,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011111001 10010111111 111100111011 1110011001 1111101111 1110001111 1110110111 111111110 11100111010 1111011100100 1111010111 111010111010 111000110110 110010111110 101111010100 1100111101 11101111111 111111 101110111010 111110111000 101011101100 10101110100 11101011010 11011111110 011001111111 11111111 10111011001 111111011111 10101011011 101111110110 110110111010 1110101111001 11110011010 111001101111 100111111100 1001111010 110100110111 011111101111 111000011011 10110100110 1100011101010 101100010001 1111011111 100010110110 101110101110 111010111 1100111100110 101101010101 11101011111 10011111000101 1001111110 111001111101 0111110110 1111111110 101011101000 1111101110 101111111001 110110101001 1110111110011 11011110100 10111011111 100011111101 1111111111010 1111111110100 111111011100 100011110 1110111111 11111100111 1110010110111 10011100101 101011011111 1110111010 011111011110 1011110010011 10011111100 101111110110 1111111000110 10011111110010 111101111100 111111011111 1111011101110 1110011101110 111110110011 11000101001 1111011111 110111101011 111011011010 11001011110 100111110110 11011111010 110011110011 10111101010 1110001111 0110011010 1011101100 1010110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 749
  • Average number of words per stanza: 147
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; vous, d, que, m, si, rosi, l, en, de, le, ne, pas, les are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words l, sur, qu are repeated.

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

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

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

  • summary of Discours À La Rosière;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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