This is an analysis of the poem Viens, Mort, À Mon Secours Viens that begins with:
Viens, mort, à mon secours viens ;
Ô mort, secours, je t'en prie....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXXXXXbXaXbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 1101111 111111111 1111111 1001100 1111111 111110 1111111 11101111 1011111 111110 101011 1110111 110101 11111 1011101 1111111 101101 1001100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 584
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; je, viens, mort, fais are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase mort connects the lines.
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