This is an analysis of the poem Viens Jusqu'À Notre Seuil Répandre that begins with:

Viens jusqu'à notre seuil répandre
Ta blanche cendre ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXaaXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011 111 110011001 010010111010 11111111110 1 1101110 01111 10111011 1110111 1100110010 110110101100 1010111110 1101011111 1011011110010 11001100101 1110111101 10111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 329
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; qui, et are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word neige is repeated.

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  • idea of the verse;
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