This is an analysis of the poem Le Volubilis that begins with:

Toi qui m'entends sans peur te parler de la mort,
Parce que ton espoir te promet qu'elle endort...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXX bbaXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011110011 111101101010 11011010111 111111011 11101101110 101011111011 11101100110010 101101100010 101001111011 11111111101011 111111000110100 1010011100 11110110111 10101011000 110010010110 11001011110 1011010100 11011110101 10100111111 100110111110 1110111110 1111110100 1000111111 10011001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, le, de are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Le Volubilis;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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