This is an analysis of the poem Mourir that begins with:
Un soir plein de pourpres et de fleuves vermeils
Pourrit, par au-delà des plaines diminuées,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXaXXX XXXXXXXXX XaXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101010 1011111100 11001011011 110011110 101011101010 110011111111 101001101001 10110110010 1101011001 111011110111 111100011110 110110100001 0111011101010 101101101111 110111111001 110110101010 11111110 10011010101 11111110111 111111011000 101011101001 11110010101 101101111110 101010110001 1011111010 11001110111 1111010001 110011010110 10111011010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 463
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, et, des, le, trop are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, avec are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Mourir;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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