This is an analysis of the poem Au Frère Stephen that begins with:
J'ai planté ce matin un bouquet éphémère
Au-dessus du cher mort sous le tertre endormi ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 111101011 110011101100 111111011110 1001101110 111111011010 101101111111 11011011011 1100111101 1010100111 11110111111 10101110110 11111111110 111111111111 11111010110 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; que is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, e are repeated).
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More information about poems by Louis Honoré Fréchette
- Analysis of Décembre
- Analysis of Le Bois De La Roche. À Mon Ami, M. Le Sénateur Forget.
- Analysis of Les Fleurs Boréales/Les Pins
