This is an analysis of the poem La Goutte that begins with:
Sous un seul hunier – le dernier – à la cape,
Le navire était soûl ; l’eau sur nous faisait nappe....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXa XaX XXXXaXX X XXXXXb XXXXXXXXcc XXbX XXXXXX cX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,7,1,6,10,4,6,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001011 01011111101 1101011011 010010 111010 11100110110 01010111101 1110101010 101100110 1110111001100 11110111111 111011111 110 110110111110 1111011111 10 1101101011 101111110 10 1100111011 10111111 01011011111 011100 1011 10111101010 1010111111 10100111111 011010010 11 100100111111 111110110100 1111010110 011110111010 101110110101 1010111101 11101111011 11110101111 1100101011 111100111110 11111101111 0100111111101 111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 44
- 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:
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; le, hunier, l, un, la, m, pas are repeated.
The author used the same word le 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 La Goutte;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
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