This is an analysis of the poem Le Poète Ne Se Plaint Pas De La Mort Prochaine... that begins with:

J'ai chanté comme Chérubin
Pour les beaux yeux de ma marraine !...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XaXX XXXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110 11110110 11010101 1110100 101010 111011 11110 11110110 1111110 10010011 1011100 11010 11110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, le are repeated.

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  • summary of Le Poète Ne Se Plaint Pas De La Mort Prochaine...;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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