This is an analysis of the poem Inscription Pour Le Tombeau Du Peintre Henri Rousseau Douanier that begins with:

Gentil Rousseau tu nous entends
Nous te saluons...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011110 1110 10011011011 11011001111101 11000110110110 101110111101 1110011110110 11110 1110010101 11110111100 11010101110 1011001010011 101111111110 101110011100 110010110110 101011110 01010011100 110110111010 1110010110 11101100101 110101111 111011011010 1011111011 11111111011 1100110 110100111100 1101110010 110011100101 11111111101110 1110101101 101101011 11110111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; des, tu, tes are repeated.

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

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  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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