This is an analysis of the poem Le Cimetière Marin that begins with:

Ce toit tranquille, où marchent des colombes,
Entre les pins palpite, entre les tombes;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101101100 10111010110 100110101 111110100 110111 1010110111 110101101 110010001 111111100 1111011101 10011101 01101010110 101101010 10111001 1100111011 101011101 11101011 11111101 1001101101 11111101100 110010110 11111101 11000101 110011100 101111110 11111110 111111111 111101101 1011101 010011110 111110111 1110111 10011010 1110011010 1110111111 11001110 101110010 11110100010 011011110 111111110 10111110 0111110 11111111111 11111001 10011101 101010110 10111010 1011111010 111101100 1100110100 11111010 111111100 11101110 11011110 11111110 101010110 111110010 10100111010 110101101110 111111110 110110 110111001 111101010 01100110010 1011100100 110111010 10101000110 1011110 10111111 0111111110 110111110 11000111101 11111111 1111111 1011101100 111111101111 111101 11111010100 11111100110 11001101100 101011100 111111010 1111100110 011110100 111011101 10101111 010101111 11111101000 1101111000 1111111011 1110110100 1111110010 0110111001 01111111110 1101111110 111111101 111110111 1101110010 10101111110 1001110100 1011110110 11010110 11000111 100010001 1011111100 01101111 111101111101 11111110 11011000 1101010100 111110011 011001100 11111101110 1101111111 10111011111 1110101110 11111010100 10011111111 1110111111 1101111000 110111 1110111 111111111 011011111 10011101 1101001011 111011010 10111110 101111001 11001101 11111101 101110010 01110101 1011101 0111100001 11010111 11101001 111011010 01111111001 101111011 111111011 10011011 10101011 1110110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 144
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • 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; de, ciel, moi, l', les, est, mes, le, qui, vous, ne, et, il, z, non are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words comme, quel, les, le are repeated.

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

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

  • summary of Le Cimetière Marin;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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