This is an analysis of the poem La Fiancée Du Marin that begins with:

C'était un pâle soir d'automne
Sur la vague qu'elle talonne,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX aXbcXX XXcdXc XXXXXX eXXeXX XXXXXf XXgXXX XXgXXX XXgaaX XeXXXX XXXXXX XhiXXX fXXXXX XXXdXi XXXXXX XXXXcf X iXjXXX XXXXaX dXfgXf XXXXaX XiXXXX X XXXXXX ciXggX XXXdXk XXXXXk XXXXXg XXbXXX XhXiiX XXgXXg XXXXXb XXXXXj fXXXfg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,6,6,6,6,6,1,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110 1111010 1110 11111 101011 1100 0111110 11010111 1001 1011101 1010110 111 10011110 110110110 111 11100110 11110010 111 11110111 11111111 1111 11111011 11111 11010 1110011 10101110 0110 10101111 101111 011 1011100 1100110 1011 111110 11111110 1011 111111 1111111 1001 11111010 111010 0110 1111110 1111010 1110 111100 1110110 1110 1111110 11001010 0101 1110111 101011 111 1010111 11110011 1110 1101110 1010110 1011 10110110 1110110 111 1011011 10101111 11 110101 111111 110 1111011 1101011 10 11101110 1111010 1110 101110 01100110 1011 11101110 1101101 1010 0110001 11100111 11010 11011110 1010110 1110 10111010 11110111 1111 1111110 111001011 1110 10101110 1110111 0101 1 1011011 10110100 1111 01001110 1110110 111 0110010 1110110 1111 1110111 1101110 1011 10110110 101010 1011 11111111 10110110 11101 11111 11111 1011 1011011 111101 1110 0110111 10101110 1110 11110 1100111 1111 1 11111110 111110 111 1011100 1101100 1101 110111101 1110011 1110 1001101 01011110 1110 11110 10110111 1110 10111010 111010 111 10111010 1010110 1110 1110110 1110101 1110 111011 11100110 1110 1110011 111011 1111 111101000 111110100 1001 1010110 1110010 1111 101110 110110 1110 11111111 111110 1101 111110 11110 111 111111 1110110 1011 111111111 111100111 1111 11101111 111101 0111 01111110 11101 01111 1101111 11111111 1001 11101111 111011010 1010 1101011100 11110111 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 34
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 196
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; re, pour, de, la, des are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word on is repeated.

    The author used the same word quand at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, es, te, e, ve are repeated).

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  • summary of La Fiancée Du Marin;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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