This is an analysis of the poem Nature Morte that begins with:

Des coucous l’Angélus funèbre
A fait sursauter, à ténèbre,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101 011001 0101001 1011100 1110110 111011 111111 1101111 01101010 11110110 10101111 0111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, le are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bre is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Nature Morte;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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