This is an analysis of the poem Ecrit Après La Visite D'Un Bagne that begins with:

Chaque enfant qu'on enseigne est un homme qu'on gagne.
Quatrevingt-dix voleurs sur cent qui sont au bagne ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXX XXXXXbbXXXX XXXXXbXXXXXXX XXXXaccXXXaXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,11,13,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101001111010 100110111111 111101111 1111011011011 11111101101 10001111011 11110101 100110011101 01111111110 111101110110 111011111111 101111110111 10110101101 10011110111 1011111001 11001101 111011100101 101111110111 111010110100 110001111 1110011000 101011110010 10010010110 110110110 100110110110 10101110110 10001110101 01011111111 1111110100101 1011111101 10110011101 11111101011 1110010110 1111010101011 011101110110 10110010101 11110111101111 111111111111111 11111111111 1111110111111 11101111111 101100101011 111100111100 0011111110 1001111111 111010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 556
  • Average number of words per stanza: 104
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, de, leur, je, que, dis, sont are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word je is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es, re, s are repeated).

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

  • summary of Ecrit Après La Visite D'Un Bagne;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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