This is an analysis of the poem La Tombe Dit À La Rose (The Grave And The Rose) that begins with:
La tombe dit à la rose :
- Des pleurs dont l'aube t'arrose ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXX XXXbXX a AcXcXXb ddeXXeXXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,1,7,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 111110 1111110 11111 1110111 1111010 111101 01111111 1101101 111110 011110 1111101 01101 011001 100101 1101101 110101 011011 0111000 011001 011101 001101 001111 101101 110101 110011 110101 011101 011001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same words la, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tombe, rose are repeated).
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