This is an analysis of the poem La Fontaine Du Cimetière that begins with:

A la morne Chartreuse, entre des murs de pierre,
En place de jardin l'on voit un cimetière, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXX 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: 011011011001 11010111100 1100111101 111100111111 101011111 111000111011 110100001 101101101011 110011111 111001010000 1110011001100 10110011010 101111110 10010011011 1100101111 10101011001 1111011100 1111011011 1111001111 111111111 1111111110001 101011111011 1111010111001 110100101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sans, un, e, des, de, je are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tre, e, vre are repeated).

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  • summary of La Fontaine Du Cimetière;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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