This is an analysis of the poem Pensée Des Morts that begins with:
Voilà les feuilles sans sève
Qui tombent sur le gazon, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,20,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 1101010 10111 111010 110100 110101 110111 1111100 111110 01111 111010 1110011 1110110 1101101 01011010 1111 10110011 111100 11011 10101111 11101 11101 110101 11110 1110111 1110110 1111110 111111 1110011 1101010 11011100 1111010 110111 110110 1110110 111111 1101110 1111011 101011 1010011 1110111 111011 1111011 1010110 1101011 111100 1110011 111100 101011 10110 1101110 111110 1011110 11111 11111 1111101 1010110 1111111111 1111111 1110010 11011110 111111 111001 1110111 101010 0101110 1010110 1111110 101110 1111101 1111010 1011101 101110 1011101 11111 101110 111011 1111 11111 11111111 0111111 0111111 1111010 0110010 11111100 1101110 1110011 1100100 11001100 111101 1111 11010 111011 111111 1101111 1111111 111101 1110110 1101110 111111 111011 1011010 100101 0110110 11101111 10110101 110111 110111011 1111 100111111 1110010 10110010 111100 1100101 111101011 1111101 1111010 10111011 0111011 1010110 11111 1101110 111111 1110110 1101010 1010111 111010 1101111 10111 110101 111111 1010010 1100110 111010 1110111 11111 101101 1001110 1110110 1100101 1110010101 11010011 1101101111 11111011 11001101010 0111000111 11101011110 1110100110 1010111011 111101101 1011110011 111110111 11110111 111011111 11111111 111011011 1100101110 110110110 101111110 1111111110 111010111 1110101110 0110110001 0111110011 110111110 1111100111 111011010 1101100111 1111101 1110111101 1101110101 0110111011 11111111 1111110110 11101011 1111100111 1111111111 111110111 111011101 1011101110 101111011 1111010111 1110111100 111101010 11011110 10101 100111 10101 1111010 111100 11011 111 1111111111 11101111 1110110 11011 1110110 110011 1111011 1100011 1111000 111100 1011111 11011100 1110110 111000 1010111 10110 111011 1011011 1111100 11010 1011011 111110 1101110 1011100 1101111 010100 1111111 1011100 111111 11011111 111101 1010101 10110 11011 11111110 1111101 1011 1111110 11101 01101 111001111 0111100
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 461
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 249
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; le, la, son, notre, c'est, vous, dieu, ils, leur, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ainsi, mais, quand, chaque, il, vous, ils, si, les, mets are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines res, tres, e, bres, ve, re, rent, me are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word s at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Pensée Des Morts;
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