Sur La Mort De M. Sassinot by Hégésippe Moreau: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Sur La Mort De M. Sassinot that begins with:

Mes yeux sont dessillés et je vois sans nuages,
Je vois l’Être suprême à qui tout rend hommage,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXX aXXbbX XXXaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101111110 1111111110 11011111111 10110110100 1000100 11110111100 10001011010 11111110011 11111110110 0111010011 11100 11101110011 110111011111 111010111100 111101110 1110100101 100101 1110110 11001101110 1101110111 1001011100101 11101011111 110110 11101110110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; je, vois, de, il, c are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Sur La Mort De M. Sassinot;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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