This is an analysis of the poem Lazare that begins with:

... Et Lazare à la voix de Jésus s'éveilla
Livide, il se dressa d'un bond dans les ténèbres ; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX abba XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010110110 101111011111 1101011110 1111010111110 111110101111 111010010111001 111101010011 110011110010 11110001111 1111101111100 111000110100 1011110100110 110100111110 1111010111110 1101010110110 110110111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; un is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bres, pas are repeated).

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  • summary of Lazare;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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