This is an analysis of the poem Dernière Solitude that begins with:

Dans cette mascarade immense des vivants
Nul ne parle à son gré ni ne marche à sa guise ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110001110 111111111111 1111011 111111011110 1111011010 1111111111 11011111110 11101101 10101011010 1001110011010 11111111111 110101110010 011011011110 11111001110010 001111111011 11101111111 1111001010 1001101101 11110100010111 10110111110 01111111110 1111010111 10111011100 111011111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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; des is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines guise, me are repeated).

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  • summary of Dernière Solitude;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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