This is an analysis of Le Dernier Chant by Pierre François Lacenaire.

En expirant, le cygne chante encor,
Ah laissez-moi chanter mon chant de mort !...…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ab XXXcXX XXcXdXdX XeXXfXXXa XX eXXXfXXXXXXX XbXXXXXbXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 2,6,8,9,2,12,11,
  • Metre: 1100010111 1111101101 11111011110 11101110 11110011 11010110 11010110 1111011 10111011 111111001 011101 11111010 1010110001 10100011 11011101101 10101110111 111100101111 111101110 11111111 1111001 1111110 10111001 110111110 11111110 111111 111010111110 11011111010 1011101110111 1011111111 110100101110 11110110010 11111110101010 101110101111 11011111100 1101110100 1110110010 1101010 0110110110 111101111 010111111 110111011111 10111011110 110110111101 0110010111110 1011101101110 1101011101111 010110100110 11111101111 11010111010 11011100010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 50

Repeated words/phrases

moi, toi, sans, dieu, la, le, pauvre, vous, l'or, de, du, et

Anaphora

ah, mon, on