This is an analysis of the poem La Ballade Des Pendus that begins with:
Frères humains qui après nous vivez
N'ayez les coeurs contre nous endurciz, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011110 101111100 1110011010 1110110110 111011011 101111101 101101011 1111100111 011101111 111111110 1111101110 1010111010 110100110 111110110 1001111010 100101101 111111111 11001001 110111111 111111110 11101110 100110110 110111110 110111110 10111111010 11111011 011011011 110010111 111010110 111111110 1111101 110010110 0110111111 11011010 111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 353
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; nous, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nous is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word absouldre at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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