This is an analysis of the poem L'Espoir Du Néant that begins with:
La douceur du dernier anéantissement!
O! l'hydromel des morts nous boirons lentement,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXXaXXXX XXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001010000 110011110100 111110011 101111100 1110001101000 010110110011 111110110110 111010010001 11011110001 1100110101100 11100111111 11011110011 110111110111 1101011101 1110011111 111110100 101110110011 11111110010 1110001101110 11110010100 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 476
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words pour, bient are repeated.
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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