This is an analysis of the poem Surgite Mortui that begins with:
Vous, qui mourez à tout propos
Et six fois par semaine,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXXXXXXX XXXbXXcXXXXXX XXcXXXXXXXXXX XXXdXXXdXdXXX XXXbXXXXXXXXX XXXXbaaXaaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,13,13,13,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110 111110 010010 010011011 1001 111 110101011 1011110 10011110 111011111 10111 10110 0111100010 1110011 1011 1001 01111011 1110 0100 1010111111 01110100 0111010 0111010100 10111 10110 0111100010 10001111 110100 111011 1011011 100 10 01111011 11110010 11110100 0111110100 10111 10110 0111100010 1010101 10011 111110 11111011 1110 1101 10101010110 1011101 1100110 11111101 10111 10110 0111100010 1111010 01111 11110 011011 11111 111 1111111011 1111110 11111111 1101110011 10111 10110 0111100010 101110 101011 111011 11111111 1001 11101 1010100101 11011110 1101111 101111111101 10111 10110 0111100010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 380
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; demain, la, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word demain is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, me, pas are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word revivre at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase mourons connects the lines.
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- summary of Surgite Mortui;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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