This is an analysis of the poem Épitaphe that begins with:
Sauf les amoureux commençons ou finis
qui veulent commencer par la fin il y...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcdXXXXaaaaeXcbXXX f XX X ccXc eXgXXdh XXXX gXf XX Xc XXXX XXXdXcXX XhgX ff XXcX XbXXXX XXXXXXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,1,2,1,4,7,4,3,2,2,4,8,4,2,4,6,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100100110 11010011111 01010110010 01010010 0110111111 11011100110 100110010001 10101101011 11110111000 11110111 11010110011 101000110100 11111010111 1001101111 10001011011 10101011 01001111010 01010010010 110011101 1111000 10110 111110110010 1111101011111 11011011110 111101101 1101101 11110010 11001 0111111111101 01110101 11111011 0110110 0111010 0101110 10111011 101011 111101 1101100 111001010 111011 101110 100110 11111 101111111 1110110 11000110 111101 1111011 10111011 11110111 10110100 11110011 1000111 1101101 101110 01001100 11101101 10111101 1001011 10010010111 1101011 111111 11110111 1100111 11010110 111110 11101101 111101 1111111 10011110 110001010 1011011 11111 111010 111111010 1011111 101111010 11011001 1110010 1111111 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; par, o, il, de, le, te, tr, s are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words commencement, de are repeated.
The author used the same word trop at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bout, e, le, te, plat, me are repeated).
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- summary of Épitaphe;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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