This is an analysis of the poem Lamento that begins with:
Connaissez-vous la blanche tombe
Où flotte avec un son plaintif ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXX XbbXXX XXXXXX XXcXXX dXXdXX XccaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001111 11101110 110 1111010 11110110 111 11100001 01110110 1111 1101010010 11111011 1100 110111 111100 0110 101011 111111000 1100 1110110 11100100 1101 110110 11111010 111 11011010 10110111 1001 10111010 10111011 1100 11011011 111010101 1101 10011010 1011101 1110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Lamento;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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