This is an analysis of the poem La Fête Du Soleil that begins with:

J’allai donc de mon pas rapide,
Interwiever, pour mon journal,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bXXX XaXX cXcX XXXX dedX XXfX XcfX XXXX XXXX XacX XXXX XXXf XXXX XeeX XdXf cbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101110 10001110 1001010 100100 1110101 10111010 11010011 01101 101110 11001111 11011111 1110110 111111010 11011 1111101 111110 11101100 00111111 1100100 111111 1101011 111110111 00111110 11110110 11101011 1111110 101100110 11100010 11110110 1101101 1101011010 1011010 10010111 1010111 10110110 11111 1101110 1101010 011111111 1001010 01111110 11001110 1110101 1110110 111111 1011100 11011 11100011 111101100 110100 10110 1010010 1001111 1101100 1100111 110010 10110011 11011101 101100101 1101110 1101011111 100011101 11111 001111001 11111 11100110 110111101 1100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 68
  • 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; vous, nous are repeated.

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

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

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

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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