This is an analysis of the poem Sur La Tombe that begins with:
Voici des vers, voici des roses — les plus belles
Que tu chérissais tant. Voici mon cœur encor,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXa aXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 101110110111 11101101111 1011011111 101111101110 1011101100 01110110111 11011010001 111111011000 101001111000 110111010 1101101101110 1100111110010 101001010001 11101011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; voici, le are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines les is repeated).
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- summary of Sur La Tombe;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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