This is an analysis of the poem Devant La Mer that begins with:
Secoue au moins le vide insultant qui te borne
Avec l'oeil nébuleux d'une revêche nuit....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXaX bXbX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101100111 10110111 111110100101 01101110 111111111 101110010 11111100111 10111100110 11011011101 1111111110111 11101111011 110111011 11111111101111 11000111010 0110011100111 101111011010 0101111011111 1110111010 11011111000 10111111101 011111111000 111000011100 010110110000 11010100100 1100101101 11101100110 10110110010 111110111 11011101110 10101111010 10101111110 10101101110 111010111010 10101101100 11111101111100 10110011000 111110100111 011111010 11101011011 10111011100 111111010110 111101001 11101101110 1110110100 101001101 1111110110 11110110110 101011101011
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; n, et, si, les, combien, la are repeated.
The author used the same word le at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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