This is an analysis of the poem Sur La Mort D'Une Cousine De Sept Ans that begins with:
Hélas, si j’avais su, lorsque ma voix qui prêche
T’ennuyait de leçons, que, sur toi, rose et fraîche,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXa XbXXXX XXcXXc bXXXXc cXaXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101111111 10001111111 011011101000 11110111111 11110110101 111011 111011110011 110011101011 11101100110 11011011011 110100111 110011 1111110100 1101111100 111101010101 10111110110 111101101110 111111 1101100111 111001110010 010010101010 10111011011 11101101111 101011 11111101111111 1001100110101 1111011100 011111111001 11011010101 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; que, de, je are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines che, re, es are repeated).
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