Poem Analysis of Ecrit Sur Le Tombeau by Victor Marie Hugo for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Ecrit Sur Le Tombeau that begins with:

d'un petit enfant au bord de la mer
Vieux lierre, frais gazon, herbe, roseaux, corolles ; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1101111011 11110110100 1111010110110 101100100001 1001100111 111100111111 1110100101 1110011011 1001100110 1011101110100 11111111010 11101101110 111111111 10111101110 101110111100 111010110011 11111011110
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
Average number of words per stanza: 29
Amount of lines: 17
Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; o is repeated.

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Ecrit Sur Le Tombeau by Victor Marie Hugo: poem analysis

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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