This is an analysis of the poem Aurora that begins with:
Cent vingt corsairiens, gens de corde et de sac,
À bord de la Mary-Gratis, ont mis leur sac....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXbXc XXX XXXXX XXXX XcXX XXXaXX XXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,3,5,4,4,6,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101101 10110101111 101111010111 11011111011 111011110 1101111011 11111010111 11110100101 11101011010 1111110011 11110011010 1110101111 1101111110 11100111100 100111 11100 111111101 10101011011 111 110110 1110110111 11110100101 01101111111 1110101101101 11101011001 100101111111 1011011101 111010101 1111011 1011 11011110110 11110110111 10100100111 1011111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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; de, et, le are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hisse is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sac, pas are repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Aurora;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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