This is an analysis of the poem Complainte Du Fusillé that begins with:
Ils m'ont tiré au mauvais sort
par pitié...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXXXXXXXXaXXX AXXXXXaXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 110 1101 01111 11111 110011 1101110 1 1111 111 1101011 101010 1111 1101 1111101 111 111110111 11111 110110 10 1100111 1111111 101111 101011 101011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- 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; des is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words la, des, tuant are repeated.
The author used the same word ils at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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