This is an analysis of the poem Un Souvenir À L'Hôpital that begins with:
Sur ce grabat, chaud de mon agonie,
Pour la pitié je trouve encor des pleurs ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXaXaXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXbbXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010110 11101111111 111001101 0110111010 1111101100 1011110110 11111101100 110111010 1110111010 1100111111 1010101110 1101100111 101110110 1111111111 111101011 110111010 110011100 11011101 11110101110 1110111110 111011110 110111100 110010110 110111010 11100111111 1110011010 1110111 11011001 101111111 111111010 11101111011 110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 441
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word mais is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word souffrir at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Un Souvenir À L'Hôpital;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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