This is an analysis of the poem La Politesse Est Morte that begins with:
Politesse de nos aïeux, vous êtes morte,
Il paraît. On le dit....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXa XbXX XXXX XXXX cbcb XXXb dXXX XXca XbdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100011111 110101 1111111111 1110 111011001001 1011100 101111110 100110 1111100101110 1111100 111010110100 101010 1101010111110 11110 1010100101010 11111 1111010100 00110 110111001110 1110 11111000111 101011 01111011011 111010 1101011110100 111100 10111001111001 11110 011111111100 1111111 01111101111 110101 01111110111100 11011 111101111100 11101 1101011001011 11111110 111011110011 1111011 1101111110 11110 10111100110 10110 1111111101110 111010 101111110101 111100 11111011011 11000 111111101100 01011 110011110111 1111101 111011111111 0111 1111111101 111100 111111101111 11101 11100111110 01111 101110111111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; je, en are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase je connects the lines.
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- summary of La Politesse Est Morte;
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