This is an analysis of the poem Le Mort Joyeux (The Joyful Corpse) that begins with:
Dans une terre grasse et pleine d'escargots
Je veux creuser moi-même une fosse profonde,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XbXX XXX XcX a dedf dbda dXX acb X b deef dgdg hhb hhb i j fiif dddd dab dab j a afafafafddhbhb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,14,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111111100 1111011111110 11111010111 110110111011 11111001111110 111001101 101001100110 10111011010 11100110111 10101111110 100010101100 1011101110 110110111110 111111111011 0101 00110101001 1101111111 11111011111 1100100101001 110101100111 1010101001 1101010101 0101011010 111010010111 101110110101 100100100100 1111010101 111011011010 101101010101 010110100 0101 0011011101 1101111111 1011110101 01001010101 1111110011 1111011101 1101011011 0111000101 1111110111 0111010101 1101010101 1111011101 1011110111 1011010101 0101110 01011 1010001010011 011101111001 1111100101001 1101110101001 110011110011 101111010111 111111001101 1011101111001 111111101111 111101011101 1110001100111 1110000111101 110010101110 110011110101 0101110 101 0010111101 1101111101 1011111100 1011111001 1100111100 0101110111 1011111011 11001011111 1111101111 0101111101 1001001001 10010111001 0111010101 1011010101 0101110
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 83
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dans, les, sans, and, i, dead, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
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- summary of Le Mort Joyeux (The Joyful Corpse);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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