This is an analysis of the poem Sur La Maladie De M. Sassinot that begins with:
L’abîme du malheur s’entr’ouvre sous nos pas
Referme-le, grand Dieu, ne nous y plonge pas !...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010111 10011111111 11110111 111110110101 11001011110 1100111000 1111001101 1011101011001 101111111 110110010110 1101100110100 1001111100100 1101111111 10111010110 111010110 110111011 10010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 379
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; le, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word qui is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines pas, re, le are repeated).
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