This is an analysis of the poem Ce Que C'Est Que La Mort that begins with:
Ne dites pas : mourir ; dites : naître. Croyez.
On voit ce que je vois et ce que vous voyez ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011010110 1111111111110 1011101111111 1111110110011 111001111 1110011010 101101011 111111101111 111111111001111 111011111010 111111111111 110101111111 1111111111100 11111111011111 1010111110 01101110011 1101101001100 11111001110011 1111111011 1011101011111 10111111111 111110110100 110110111 01110111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1217
- Average number of words per stanza: 239
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; que, aux, on, le, du, ses, de, et, chante are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word on is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tes, re, tombe, bres, chante are repeated).
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