This is an analysis of the poem Le Sens De L'Heure that begins with:

Je le dis tout à trac, je considère comme
Une calamité...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX abXb XXXXcXcX XdXX aXXe fXfb XbXc XXXX eXXf Xdcd aXXX eXXX XXXX XXggXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011111101 1100 1111110111 1100 10111010111 111111 11011110111 111011 11110110111 10110 110101101101 111011 11101111101 110100 101101100101 110100 1111101111 111101 1111011110 111111 11101100101 111110 1110101010 110101 111110111011 11100 111110110011 11110 110111001110 111011 11101110100 1011 1101111011 10110 111100110011 1011 110011010011 11001 010100111101 111111 1101101011000 11101 110111010110 01011 10111011111 111011 1011101111 11001 1111011111 101100 1111111110 0101 11101111110 11100 111010110110 01110 10110101001 10110 1111110111 1111111 1111011111 110110 10000111100 1111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 65
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; l, que, heure, cise, est, vous, de are repeated.

    The author used the same word vous at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

  • summary of Le Sens De L'Heure;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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