This is an analysis of the poem Ultima Verba (My Last Word) that begins with:
... Quand même grandirait l'abjection publique
A ce point d'adorer l'exécrable trompeur ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX XXXX XXXb XaXX XcdX XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX edXf g gggg agga chhc iXbi caaX Xeei ijji kXil fmmf XXXl mnnm kXdk kffi aaaa ahha mcem occo cggcXkffk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110010010 0111001010 1111100111110 1010111101 11111101111 111111101 101010100111 111111011 101111110 10011010011 11111101101 0101001011 111110111111 1011110010 1111000111010 10011010101 11010011111 101100111110 100011111010 111001011101 111010101111 11111011111 1011101100110 111110011100 10110011110 111001110110 110111010 111111111010 0111010110111010 1111110110 1111100111111 10011110110 1111100111111 1101011001 10111110011 1110010101010 10110111111 1101011100 1100011010111 111011110100 11111111111111 11111111111110 111011110010 1111101110101 111 1001010101 0111010101 1111011001 0101000101 11010101010 0110011111 1101011101 110111010100 01011011101 1111011101 1011011001 10111010101 01011101110 1101011001 1110011111 10111100110 111010010111 0101110111 1001110001 110100010100 111110010010 11001011101 11011001001 101101011010 1001000101 00010100010 11010100010 01001011001 11111011101 0111110011 1001010101 111010110110 001101101010 11101010101 1111000101 1010100011 11111111000 11010101010 011011101 11011011100 1111011101 100101110101 111100011101 1001010101 10010101001 110011111 1111010110010 1110101011 0110111111 01010111001 1101010111 11111110001 1101111101 0101111111 1101011010 01011111111 1101010101 111011111 1101111101 10110111111 10101111001 011001110001 10100111111 11101001101 001011011110 0111101001 10011011001 1000011001 1001011001 11101101001 11111010001 100101111 11101001101 1110101001 0100110100 1011001100
- Amount of stanzas: 31
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 123
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; m, me, quand, les, le, mon, qui, et, qu'on, de, je, his, he, as, and, my, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words quand, je, and, as, who are repeated.
The author used the same words quand, as, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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