This is an analysis of the poem Le Poète Et La Foule that begins with:

La plaine un jour disait à la montagne oisive :
' Rien ne vient sur ton front des vents toujours battu ! '...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aaXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111010110 111111111110101 11111110 111010111111 1011101011 1111110110111 0101011110 111111011 1110111111010 1110111110110 1111010110010 110110110100 01111011 111111100111 11110111111 1101111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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, les, je, le, mon are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word la 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 Le Poète Et La Foule;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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