This is an analysis of the poem La Grand-Mère (The Grandmother) that begins with:
To die - to sleep.
Shakespeare...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab XXbXXXccXXXXXdXbXXXXXeXfeXeedXgXXXXeXXeXXeXXX g ab hghhgbigXi jXjjghfXhf hkhhkclccl mhmmhnhnnh cnccnokook kXbcbbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,45,1,2,10,10,10,10,10,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101 11 111110101 1110101011 111110110001 11010101101011 101011111010 111011111111 111111011 11111010111101 111111110110 11100110111 10110111100 1101110111 11111110011 110110110111 1111111110 111101101 111100110111 10111100110 11010111110 1111010110110 11011110010 11010110111 110111111100 110010101010 111110111100 01111111010 111111011110 1110011001110 11011011101 111110110 1101100110 110111101110 11011010011 111100111100 11111111110 11101111111 1011011011 11001111101 1011111111111 11011011101 111101101 1110101101 101110111100 1100111111 1110101110 0110 0101 11 101110101101 1010111010 11101011111 111111001001 011011010 111101111111 1111011 1110001111000 1111110010100 1101011 1110100111001 100111010 101011001001 111111101101 11011110 101111101001 0111010 111111001011 111111011001 00111010 001011001011 10110010 001111101001 001011110011 1011010010 111111101011 1101010 11001001101 11000001111 1101010 101011111001 1111110 101011001111 101011001001 101101010 1010010111001 1111010 111111011011 11011011011 1011110 101101001101 0111010 11101100001 11101010001 1101010 111111011001 01001110 111111011111 111111011001 111111010 10 11011111101 11010100 101111001011 101001111001 00101010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 436
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; re, et, lampe, la, nous, es, quel, les, le, de, m, thee, thy, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words quel, la, wilt, of, what, at are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, es are repeated).
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