This is an analysis of the poem Le Pressoir that begins with:
Sans doute elles vivaient, ces grappes mutilées
Qu’une aveugle machine a sans pitié foulées !...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010110100 11001011010 111010110110 0111010101 11011100100 11101111100 11100101010 110111110001 101110101 111110010111 11101111 1110000111 1010111111 1111111101 10111111110 101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 763
- Average number of words per stanza: 146
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; qu is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es, cieux are repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Le Pressoir;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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