La Comète by Raoul Ponchon: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem La Comète that begins with:

Voici la comète ! Elle accourt
Du fond des immensités bleues ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 1011110 0111001 111111 1101001 1111011 1101111 1011001 110101 1110101 11111110 1010111 1101110 1011100 111011 101000 11111100 11111010 111011111 1111110 11101111 11111100 11111011 10111000 1101011111 11111110 110101 1100111 11011110 1011101 10111110 111011 11010111 1011111 1011111 0101010 111110 11010100 110100 111111100 011100 1101110 1101110 1111000 0111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • 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; t, le, d, s are repeated.

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

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

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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