This is an analysis of the poem Escargots that begins with:
La fraude — nerf du commerce
À notre époque s’exerce...
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: XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX aaXbbX XXXXXX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010 10110 1110010 1011110 110010 1110101 1100010 11101 110011 1100100 1010100 11101 1101111 1111110 1100110 100111 1100111 1110101 1111110 1100111 11111 11000110 10111110 1101001 110011 110011 1010011 1101011 1001111 11100 1011010 1011100 100110 11101 1111 111010 1110100 11001100 01100011 1110101 1011101 10111 10111000 1101000 10110110 1010 111001 111110 111110 1010100 11011 1011010 111111 1110010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Escargots;
- 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.
