This is an analysis of the poem Lento that begins with:
Je veux ensevelir au linceul de la rime
Ce souvenir, malaise immense qui m’opprime....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX Xa bX Xc XX Xa XX XX XXX dX dX XX eX XX XX cX XX XX Xb XX XX dd XX ff XX XX Xe dXXX XX Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,4,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111000110011 11010101110 110111111101 111001111001 11101111111101 10111111 100010111 11001111001 1000110110100 1011001101100 101100100110 11010111101 1111110011 111111011 11111111010 111001011100 10 1011011011 1111011111 11111111011 111111100100 10111111101 1100111110 1101111111 1111111001 111111001 11100101011 1011111011 111011010 1011011011 1111011111 11111111111 01101111010 1110111111100 1011111101 111111011110 111111111 110110110010 11110110111 11111111 110101010110 1100101100 11110111100 1101111111 11111111111111 1011011011 1111011111 110010111111 101011111010 1001001110111 1011100010100 11111111101111 11110110100 101111110111 1111110011 111010100110 10111001100 11111110111 1001011111 111010110111 111110111011 1001101011100 11001111001
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; les, si, l, un, s, je, m are repeated.
The author used the same word j at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Lento;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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