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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