This is an analysis of the poem Aux Freres De Pange that begins with:

Aujourd'hui qu'au tombeau je suis prêt à descendre,
Mes amis, dans vos mains je dépose ma cendre....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXaaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbbcXXXXXXdXXXX XbXXXXXXXXXXXXdXXXcXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011010111110 11011111111 111111101110 111001100110 10110010111 0110100100011 11111101000 11111111101 111110110100 11111111101 101110100101 110111011 1111100110100 111110100 10111110010 111010111110 111111111110 11111110110 1011101111 101010001111 101111011010 101110110010 1111110010 10111010101110 1011011110 11010100010 110100110111 11100101111 110101100100 1111110110 10111011101 0111011111010 1110101000110 1111111011 111001101110 01111111110110 10110100110 101111110 1110111011 11110111101 111010111011 0110111111 111111010010 111101111111 111100100011 1101101011 1101111111100 111100101110 111011110010 11101011011 100111111110 10011101010 1111101110 11111111 11011010101 100111111 111111011100 1110101010110 11101011001 1010110101 11111010110 111110100101 1011110011 1111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1514
  • Average number of words per stanza: 279
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; je, et, des, qu'il, le, de, vos, que, les, vous are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words des, afin, et, si, que are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines res, e are repeated).

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  • summary of Aux Freres De Pange;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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