This is an analysis of the poem Montparnasse that begins with:

There are never any suicides in the quarter among people one knows
No successful suicides....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXbXbbXaaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1110101010010011011 1010101 0011101101 1010010100101101 01101101101 1111010110111 110101 01011101 011101001010101 1101011011011 11011001011 10010101011101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 567
  • Average number of words per stanza: 104
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; dead is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dead is repeated).

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  • summary of Montparnasse;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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