This is an analysis of the poem Cy S'Ensuit Comme Quoi that begins with:

En dépit de tous médecins,
De Combe et de ses noirs desseins,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXa XXX XXa XXX bXb XXX XcX XXX ddX XXX ddX XXc dXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110 01101110 11100101 10010111 11110111 111101111 1011011 11011000 1110111 1100111 11110111 110111 10110110 10111010 11011110 1101111 1110010 1101011 110110 1101011 1010111 1111011100 110011100 110111100 11101110 1101011 11011100 1101111 11111011 11011011 1111111 1110110 11101110 1110110 101010100 101111010 101101110 1111100 110100 111110 1111101 10110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, saint are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word saint is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines paire is repeated).

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  • summary of Cy S'Ensuit Comme Quoi;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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