This is an analysis of the poem Adieux De L'Hôtesse Arabe that begins with:

Puisque rien ne t'arrête en cet heureux pays,
Ni l'ombre du palmier, ni le jaune maïs,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbXX bXXccX XXXXXX dXXdXX XXXXXa XXXXeX XXbXXX eXXXXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111101 110101011 10111100 101111011 011111010010 10110011 01100111011 01101111110010 110110 111001110111 111101010101 1101110 110111111101 11011011100 110101010 111111011 110001101110 01101110 11101011101 111111010 111010100 111110110011 11001111001 11001010 111111111110 010110101110 110100 01111111110 11001110111 101111 111010110110 111101111010 110111 111101111 101101110111 0111100 1111101111100 110011111 11011111 1111110100 1011111010 1101111 01111111001 11111111110 0101000 01111111110 10110110111 101101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; ni, le, de, et are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word si at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines chants is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Adieux De L'Hôtesse Arabe;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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