This is an analysis of the poem Une Âme that begins with:
C'était une âme neuve, une âme de créole,
Toute de feu, cachant à ce monde frivole ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 101101110 111011101 011000101010 110010110011 111011011101 101111110 11011111100 1101010011 1100010110 10100111010 1111011001 1101111011 1101010 1010111101 11100100110001 111100100111 1111111111 111111011 111101111101 1111101100 111011111 110111110 11101111100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1081
- Average number of words per stanza: 196
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; de, et, la, le, un are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines le, re are repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Une Âme;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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