This is an analysis of the poem L'Horloge that begins with:
Vulnerant omnes, ultima necat.
La voiture fit halte à l'église d'Urrugne,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXaaX XXXXXXXXXbXXXaXccddXXXXXXXXXXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,17,31,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010010 11011110 11101111 111011111010 1111011000 111011101010 110011100110 111100101011 11010111001 1110101111 1110111101 1111001110 11101110100 110001110 1100111011 1110011010 111110110110 111111111011 01111110111011 1101011101 11001111111 111111111 101111100100 1101011011 1110010010 1111011101110 10101001101110 010100101010 111011110110 1111011011 100110101101 101101100111 110111100010 11100110101 1101111110 1111010011 1011110101 11100111 1101011101 110110110110 1110011101 100110110110 1001011110 11010111110 1111111101011 111111111 111011110 110101101 01011110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 761
- Average number of words per stanza: 140
- Amount of lines: 49
- 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; de, mots, un, s, le, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word comme is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lance, re are repeated).
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- summary of L'Horloge;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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