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

Ibsen n’est plus ! Sa mort évoque
En moi cette bizarre époque...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXX XXXXXX XXXaXX XXXXXX XXbXXc XXbdXX XXeXXe XXXXdX XXXfdc XXXXXX XXcXXX XXXfXX XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011111 111011 111111 11100101 1011100 0111110 1011001 101111 110011 1011110 11101010 11000 10111 10111011 101111 11010111 1100010 1111010 11111010 011111001 110111110 110110 1110100 1101010 11001010 11110101 1111011 11001000 11001110 1111011 10111111 10010111 1101111 1101111 111011 1111000 110011000 111100 11010011 101110 101101 01101111 100111000 110100000 1010110 1111001 1101101 111000 11011110 100101100 111101 11110111 111011 100111 100110100 1111110 10100100 10110110 11101110 111110 10111101 101110 101111011 1111010 1010 111010101 110101010 101111 01110011 11110111 0110101 01111110 11111110 11100100 11111011 11011110 11111111 11101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 79
  • 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; de, un are repeated.

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

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

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

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

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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