This is an analysis of the poem Epitaphe Sur La Mort De Damoiselle Elisabeth Ranquet that begins with:

Ne verse point de pleurs sur cette sépulture,
Passant ; ce lit funèbre est un lit précieux,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX XXX XaX
  • 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: 1111011110 1011101111 1111111111 10101111111 011010010110 111011011 1011010110 11011111111 1101110110110 100111110 111010111010 101110111110 110110101001 11011110111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; la, de, son are repeated.

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