This is an analysis of the poem Un Apôtre that begins with:

Un monsieur Grunn ayant appris
Que l’alcoolisme dans Paris,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXXX XXbcXX XXXdXX XaXbXc XXXbXX dXXXXX eXXXXX XXcdXX XXXXXX aXXXXX eXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 10111010 1100110 1111111 10111111 1011110 111110 111010 1011110 110001 1111110 111100100 1111010 11011100 1111111010 10011111 10110011 11001101 1110011 11010100 10000111 11110101 1110101 1101101 010011111 10101111 1111001 11000101 1101011 11001011 0111111 11011111 1101010 1101100 1111001 111111 1111101 10110111 1011101 11010101 10011110 11010100 101111 011111 1101000 10101011 1111111 01101100 10111110 111110 111110 11101011 111101 101111 11011111 10110110 111110110 110100110 1010110 1011100 1101000 11111101 1011100 10111100 10101100 1111100 11111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 66
  • 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; le, on, il are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines on is repeated).

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

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

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