This is an analysis of the poem La Mort that begins with:
Avec ses larges corbillards
Ornés de plumes majuscules,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXXX XXabXcXXX XXXXXX XbXXX dXXcXXXX XXX aXXXX Xb eeXXdXcX XXXXXX XXXXXXaXXXXXXX XX XXXXXX XXXX XXX XXXXXXX XXX XXXXXcXXX dXXX XXXX XXXb XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,9,6,5,8,3,5,2,8,6,14,2,6,4,3,7,3,9,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110100 1011000 11101110 1110 1111100 10110010 10110100 10011000 111110 1011001 111010 10101101 10011011 11101011 1111011 11101110 11111100 1011111001 1111100 11110100 111 11111 1111010 1110110 11101110 111010010001 11101011111 1011 101101 011011010101 010110 10111000 1110111 101110100 1011101 10011000110 01100100 1111100 11110111 101100 111101 11110011 111110 101111 11011110 01101000 10101101 11111 10101101 1110011 1101110 100110 11101100 1111111 11110100 111010100 11001000 1011110 11101000 11111101 1010110110 1111100 111010010 11001011 100101000 1010 1101110 111 1110010 11111110110 11111111110 1111110 101100111110 1110101100 1011100 11101010 10 111110 101101 11001101 1110101 11110101110 11110000 111100110 111111101 11010101 111001101000 1101111111 10111110 1110010 111111111 11101010 111111011 1110110 1111110 111111101 10011110 101111 011111010 1110101100 110111110110 1101101111 101110 1101011110 11101010110 11010100 10111001101 100011011111 111111010 1110010 111001110 10011010 10011100 011010 1101110 110100011 1011110 111011010 11101111110 11001110 111111011 1011110 1111101 1111111 110101100
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 125
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; des, et, la, le, nuits, les, peur are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words les, la are repeated.
The author used the same word drap at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of La Mort;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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