This is an analysis of the poem La Laide that begins with:
Femmes, vous blasphémez l'amour, quand d'aventure
Un seul rebelle insulte à votre royauté....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101100 111010110 1111011010101 11111110 011111111 1011110111110 110101111 111111110111 1111111111 101101100001 110111100110 111011101110 11101010100100 111101111010 11010111011 111101110111 11111110111 101100011110 111110110010 11101011000110 1011101110 1110011101110 1111101101010 111101111110 101111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, de, qui are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines garde is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of La Laide;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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