This is an analysis of the poem Sur La Mort Du Roi Louis Xiii that begins with:

Sous ce marbre repose un monarque sans vice,
Dont la seule bonté déplut aux bons François, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XaXX bbX 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: 1110111011 111111110 1111111110101 111110100010 1001010100 100110110110 111011101111 11110100100 10010110111 1101011101 1111110101 100110101100 111110110 100110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • 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; le is repeated.

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