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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