This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Posthume that begins with:
Dors : ce lit est le tien… Tu n’iras plus au nôtre.
– Qui dort dîne. – À tes dents viendra tout seul le foin....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaaX XaX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1110101110111 11111101101 11100111101 11110110111 11100011010 100010111011 1101011011 10111111110110 100010110101 101111111111 110110100101 110011111100 11011111101 11001110110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; plus, est, le are repeated.
The author used the same word dors at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Sonnet Posthume;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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