This is an analysis of the poem L'Homme Aux Cercueils that begins with:

Maître Christian Loftel n'a d'état que celui
De faire des cercueils pour les mortels ses frères,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa aXXX 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: 1101011110 01110111011 11101110100 1100101011010 101111110 1111001110100 10111110110 1101011010 1110101110 110101110110 11101111110 11110110100 10101110110 1101001100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of L'Homme Aux Cercueils;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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