This is an analysis of the poem La Mort that begins with:
Un vieillard râlait sur sa couche
Souffrant tous les maux d’ici-bas ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XabX bXXX XbXb cXXX XXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX cXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111 10111101 110111 110001 10010110 10101010 11010011 110110 11101 110010 11110110 11111111 11111110 110101 11110010 0111111 111011011 11101100 110100 0111110 1111010 1110100 1110010 1011110 10111111 11110110 11101110 110101101 1110011 1100110 11001011 11101100 11101110 11011110 10111010 11010110 111100011 11010110 111110 111110 11010111 1001110 01100110 111101110 11011110 10001011 1111100 11101100
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; t is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word is repeated.
The author used the same words je, ils at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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- summary of La Mort;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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