This is an analysis of the poem Déclin that begins with:
Comme il était bien, Lui, ce Jeune plein de sève !
Âpre à la vie Ô Gué !… et si doux en son rêve....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aaX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11111011101 1111111111 111011111010 1110110100 11111100110 10111010110110 10111001110011 1011011100111 1101010110111 10111111111 1111111111011 1111111001 10100010011 101000101100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
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; il is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words il, vous are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ve, bre are repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Déclin;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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