This is an analysis of the poem Le Miracle Du Val-André that begins with:

Huit baigneurs pêchaient, à mer basse,
Des crevettes sur un îlot,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXX cXXX dXXX XbXX XXdX XeXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXef XXXX XXXb XbXX XcXX XeXg XXXX XXXf XXgX aXaf XbXX XXXa XXaf XXeX dbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 1100111 11111 11010101 1111011 1111010 10110100 10110100 101010111 101111011 1111001 111100111 111000100 101111 110111010 101110 11111010 11110010 11010011 0111000 11011100 111010 111010110 11000 1101111 1101010 1001111 111011 11001010 1011100 1110110 11101100 110001100 10111010 111111100 11111010 11110 101010 110101 10101101 10100100 1010010 01111100 10100110 01111111 101100 1110110 1111 1110100 101111 01110110 11111101 1101111 1111010 1101101 111111100 111100 111010 11011110 1100010 1110100 1111110 10111010 11010110 10110110 1110011 10100110 110101 10101010 01011 1101100 1110111 110111 101010 10101100 100111 11001110 1010011 11011100 1111011 1111110 11010110 0101111100 11101 1101111 1011110 10010111 1110001 11011100 011100100 11111 010001 1101101 1001111 10110011 1011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, et, la, un, les are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word t at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Le Miracle Du Val-André;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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