This is an analysis of the poem Le Tombeau De La Négresse that begins with:
Alors qu'il nous eût fui le grand vent des hivers,
Aux derniers ciels pâlis de mars, nous la menâmes...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XaX 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: 1010111011110 11011011110 101011100100 110110010110 0110111010 101010101101 110111111100 11001111111 011001000110 101010111010 100111110111 11101111010 101011111010 1011111011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; de is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mes is repeated).
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