This is an analysis of the poem À La Mémoire De J.-N. Bienvenu that begins with:

Ta tombe est maintenant morose et solitaire,
Ô Bienvenu, modeste ouvrier du devoir....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXaX 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: 1101100011101 0101010010 111111111010 11111111011 101111101 10010110010 1101011101 111110111111 111011100111 11100111101 11100110010 11101110101 1110011101 11111111011 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et is repeated.

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

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  • summary of À La Mémoire De J.-N. Bienvenu;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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