This is an analysis of the poem Stances that begins with:

Maintenant, dans la plaine ou bien dans la montagne,
Chêne ou sapin, un arbre est en train de pousser, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXab XXXX XXXX XXXX XXbX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100111111101 1110110111010 1111011110 111101111110 1001011110 1101100110 11110100111100 1010111110 10010111001 1111011110 110001110011 101110111001 10011101110 11011101010 100110111010 11010110111 111101011110 111111111 111101100110 110111110110 1110111111 111110101100 11111011 1010011010 111010111011 1100101110 1010011111 01110001010 01111111111 10100110110 1000011111100 1101111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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; en, un, o, le are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, cet are repeated.

    The author used the same word maintenant 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 Stances;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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