This is an analysis of the poem Ce N'Est Pas Le Vent Seul... that begins with:
Ce n'est pas le vent seul, quand montent les marées,
Qui se lamente ainsi dans les goémons verts,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa baba XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101111011 111101011101 1101011010 11101100111 111111101 011111111011 10101011111 11110111101 1111111001111 1101111111 110101011011 1110110110011 111111101000 111101110 1010001101000 11011111 111010101011 11100110100 101110111010 10011001111110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, ce are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words c'est, tu are repeated.
The author used the same word ne at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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