This is an analysis of the poem Aux Morts Du 4 Décembre that begins with:

Jouissez du repos que vous donne le maître.
Vous étiez autrefois des coeurs troublés peut-être, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXaX XXbXXb XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX ccbXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001111101 1110011111 101110 10110011111 110110110011 11001 1010011100 11011011111 111101 1011111100 110110101110 1111 1111101110 101010101 10100 10010111111 111110110111 111110 110110011010 101110111010 101010 10110110110 1110011110100 111100 111110110011 110111110111 11111 10101111111 1101111011 110110 111110111 110101111 11101 11111111000 1011101011110 10111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; vous, m, t, que, vos are repeated.

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

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