This is an analysis of the poem Remords Posthume (Posthumous Remorse) that begins with:
Lorsque tu dormiras, ma belle ténébreuse,
Au fond d'un monument construit en marbre noir,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XaX XXX B cdcX abeb fag XXC X B Xaah aeea cff cXC d B aaaaaaaa iicXXb X a jhjh afaf Xka kXi g X fkkf fkkf ili lXb Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,8,6,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11100111 11110010111 1111011110 10101011011 110110011010 1111000110100 10011011010 111010111000 010100011100 10101010001 1011011010110 110111100100 010110111011 101100111110 10001 1101110101 010100100110 1101111110 10011110101 101010101101 111110010101 0111010010 111010101001 01101011001 101011101010 111101110101 110101010100 10111011 1101010111 010110100 10001 1101111101 0101110100 1111110111 0011010101 1011011101 11010100010 01110101010 1101011101 01111101010 1101110111 1111110101 01111101010 1011110110 1101010111 0101110 10001 1111010111 1100110100 1111010100 0101110111 1011111101 1111011100 1011111101 01011101001 011010110111 1011111111 1011011101 1011010100 10111111100 1011110101 0101110 0111 111101111111 110101010111 111011110101 100101010101 100101011101 110101111101 011101010001 111111110101 011111111110 110101010001 010111101101 111111000011 1111110001101 110101011011 01011011001 1010 11111101001 1001110001 0101110101 1101011101 1111110111 11110010001 11110011001 11110101001 01111100111 1101010101 1101010111 1111010101 10111111100 1111111101 0101101011
- Amount of stanzas: 32
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 99
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; et, de, le, your, from, and, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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