This is an analysis of the poem Le Dernier Jour that begins with:
J’ai dit souvent : Dieu confonde
Ce monde et tout avec lui !...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXXCX XXdXXXA XeXeXXA dbdbcXA XXXXXfA XeXeXXA XgXgXfCX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,7,7,7,7,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110 11111010 110111 0111010 1001110 11101110 11111 111111 11100 111100 1010110 1110100 1011110 101111010 111100 1011111 1111111 10100 1111111 1001100 1100111 111100 010111 111001 101111 11001 101101 1111011 111100 111110 1111111 1001100 101001 1101110 10101101 111100 1111 10111 101001 101101 11111110 1101111 111100 11100011 10110 11111 1001110 101111 1101111 11111 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tourne, le are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word plus is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word etc at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Le Dernier Jour;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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