This is an analysis of the poem A La Mère De L'Enfant Mort that begins with:
Oh! vous aurez trop dit au pauvre petit ange
Qu'il est d'autres anges là-haut,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX XXXX XXXX XcXc XXXX XXXb XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101111101 1001101011 1111111110111 100111101 10101111100100 1111010 1101100111110 1101111 111110110111010 110111010 1011011111 10111110 1001111111111 1011110 1011110111 111110 11110110111 01111111 1111011110 1101011 1110011011111 1111111 110101011101 1111111 1101101111 111101101 11101111011 11101101 1110111001 0111011 1110111110 1110110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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; pour, de, vous are repeated.
The author used the same word que at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A La Mère De L'Enfant Mort;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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