This is an analysis of the poem La Toison D'Or that begins with:

Je vois au grand soleil tes cheveux insolents
Rayonner et frémir, dignes d'un chant lyrique....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXX XXX X bXXX XXXX XXX XXX X XXXX XcXc Xaa XXb X XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101110100 10011101110 1011101110 11011110101 11011110100 01010011010 100111010 1111111011 110011111001 11101111010 1101111110 1011101111 11010011100 11111110011 1 11110110110 110010110100 1111011000 11000111100 1110011010 11001110010 111010111000 11001111010 1110111110 1010000110 1111011010 1101010011 110010101100 111110100010 1 111010111 11011111001 11110111011 10110011110 111010110011 111100001 1111111101 1111101111 11100111 10110010101 111010110011 1101110110 11110010111 1111110011 1 10110011110 101110110110 111011110011 101111010 111001101110 11110110110 1110110101010 111111110001 11001111010 1111110111110 11101111101 11101111101 11110101111 011010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 59
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tes, les are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, toiles are repeated).

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

  • summary of La Toison D'Or;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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