This is an analysis of the poem Le Jeune Homme Et La Mort that begins with:

Le long des marbres noirs et des sombres portiques,
Bordant du pâle Hadès les quais silencieux, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
  • 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: 0111011110100 1001111100 110110111 01111111100 10111110101 111111110 0111111101 1100111110100 101111011110 11010011111 111011111 101100001011 11101011110 11110011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, et are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re is repeated).

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  • summary of Le Jeune Homme Et La Mort;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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