This is an analysis of Christ En Croix by Émile Nelligan.
Je remarquais toujours ce grand Jésus de plâtre
Dressé comme un pardon au seuil du vieux couvent,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,3,3,
- Metre: 111001011101 11110110110 101001110 101111010010 111110111 11110000111 1010110101 11111011 10010011010 1100100111 1011101100 1111011101110 110011110100 1000111100100
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 17
Repeated words/phrases
le, de, et
Anaphora
et
