This is an analysis of the poem L'Agonie that begins with:

Vous qui m'aiderez dans mon agonie,
Ne me dites rien ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXA XXXX XXXX XbXb XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX cXcb XXXX XXXb XXXA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001110 111101 101101110 111101 110101011 11011 1011011111 1110101 1111111111111110 11110 1111101010 111110 1111111 11110 110100111 0111 111001110 111101 11001110 11011 110101110 11110 11101011101 11010 101011011 11100 10110111111 10101 11100111100 10110 1111111111110 10111 11100111010 11100 1100111110 11111 11101111 1110 1111101111 11011 1111101101 111111 1111101111 101111 111001110 111101 101101110 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; je, pour 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 L'Agonie;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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