This is an analysis of the poem La Mort Est Multiforme... that begins with:

La mort est multiforme, elle change de masque
Et d'habit plus souvent qu'une actrice fantasque ;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaX XbXXXX XXXXXX XXbXXb XXXcXd XXXXXX XXXaXX XbbXXX XXXXXX XeXXXX fXfXeX XfXXbX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XeXgXb XXbgXb XXhddh XXXXXX XcXXXX XXhXXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011001101 110110101010 111110 1111101110 11111111110 100100 1101111110100 11110111110001 1110 1111110111 1111111111 111110 1011100110 11110101100 01001 1010111011 10101010011 1111 110111110110 10110011110 111001 10011110 110111110111 111111 11111111010 10011010011 011010 1011101111010 110111010 1011111 11111111111 1111001111 101011 11011110011 1011111110 11111 1100111110100 1111111100 10110 11010101101 110100111000 1011011 1011011111 0111101110001 10111 1011110111 11110111011 111111 11111111 111011011 110000 111111110 11111001011 101100 110111101101 11111110111 1101110 1101011111 11111111111 1101110 1100101100100 10111010110100 111001 10111111001 110111111 1011 110111110110 110010111010 101000 11010110101 1111101101110 1100 1101110110 1101110111110 111111 111010110100 11110100101 1101 11111110110 10111111000 111000 10101111011110 111010100100 10100 1011011110 11111110110 1110 110011110110 1111001101 011010 11110110010 11011111011 11101 111011101011 1111001111 111011 1111111110110 110101101 1111 111111111011 11111001111001 101101 1011111 110101111 011011 11010111101 1111011001 11111 1111101 1101101101 01011 011110101011 11101111010 1011 1110011011111 11110111010 11111 1010100110110 1100101111 1110 10110111101 10111111010 01111 101111001110 111011111110 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 126
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; la, ou, de, leurs, et, les, s, des are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words leurs, ils, et, les are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word eux at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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