This is an analysis of the poem Le Cercueil that begins with:
Au jour ou mon aïeul fut pris de léthargie,
Par mégarde on avait apporté son cercueil;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XXXX bXXb XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111101 1111010110 1111101110 11110100111 11110110010 1001100101010 11011111101 101111011100 10111011110 1001111100 1110111110 10111110110 11110101001 10101110111 1101100111 1110111101101 11010101010 10101111011 1111011101 111101010 11100111010 111010011101 100111110 111111101 111011110011 101010010011 11101011101 0101001111 111111110110 1011011010101 1101110110 10101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; son, de, du are repeated.
The author used the same word et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Le Cercueil;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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