La Dame En Pierre by Charles Cros: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem La Dame En Pierre that begins with:

Sur ce couvercle de tombeau
Elle dort. L’obscur artiste...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX XXXb XXXX XcXX XXXc XXXX XXXX XXXX XdXX XXXX XXdb aaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110010 111010 11101101 1101 10111110 1011100 1011100 1110 1111010 1110010 101100 111 101011 1111010 110110 11010 011100 010110 1101111 0110 10110111 1101000 1101110 11010 1110011 100010 1101101 11100 11101110 11111011 0111110 110 11110110 11100 1010000 1110 111110 100111 111110 1111 111111 111111 1100110 111 1011111110 101010 1100101 1101 11111001 1101011 111011110 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; les, la are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words les, la are repeated.

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  • summary of La Dame En Pierre;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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