This is an analysis of the poem Je Hais Plus Que La Mort Un Jeune Casanier that begins with:

Je hais plus que la mort un jeune casanier,
Qui ne sort jamais hors, sinon aux jours de fête,...

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: 111111111100 1111101101101 11010110101 111111010111100 11111110110100 1101110111 10111111011 111101110100 11111001110 11111101101 1011111100 111111100011 1110010111 101100110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; ne is repeated.

    The author used the same word l'un at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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