This is an analysis of the poem La Mort that begins with:

Pourquoi craindre la mort, la grande inévitable ?
Qu'elle soit le repos, qu'elle soit le réveil,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXaX 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: 1011111100 10101110101 100110101110 111110110100 1011100101 0111101011010 11111111010 101110111110 11111111001 1110110111 10111110 101100111 11100111111000 111111101011 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; au is repeated.

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