This is an analysis of the poem Si Je Mourais Là-Bas... that begins with:

Si je mourais là-bas sur le front de l'armée
Tu pleurerais un jour ô Lou ma bien-aimée...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX aXXaX XXXXX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101110101 1100111111 1111011011 1101010101 111010110011 1111011110 10001101110 11111111111 11010010110 11111100100 101101011010 11100010110110 1110011111010 1111001101110 100010111010 010100011101 1001011011 11101010101 11010100101 1010111111 1111111101101 10110011001 01011011010 11110110010 1111101111 101101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; e, plus, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words un, je are repeated.

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

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