This is an analysis of the poem La Frégate La Sérieuse that begins with:

Qu'elle était belle, ma Frégate,
Lorsqu'elle voguait dans le vent !...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XAaXXbaXXXXaXXXA X XXccbXddXXXXXeXfXXXXXXXg d X XXXXXhXXiXXX X XXXeXXXajXja c XaXXXaXXXkXb c cfafXXdgXXXX X XXXXXXXXXXXk X XXXXeXXaXXXa X iXiXXXXXXXXX d XgXXXXXXiXiX c XXXXcXXbXgfb X XXXXXeXXXXXX X XXXXXXXXXiXX X XXXcXXXgXlXX h X fgXlXXaXXXXXXdXX a X X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,1,24,1,1,12,1,12,1,12,1,12,1,12,1,12,1,12,1,12,1,12,1,12,1,12,1,12,1,1,16,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111 10010101 11010101 10110010 1110010 1110010 111111 1011010 111101 111101 100101 11111010 1110110 1110010 101111 10010101 1 1111111110 110100111001 10111110101 110010111101 10111100111 110010111101 11111111101 10011001101 11110101100 1010101111010 1011111010 11111101 110111100010 110101101001 0101100101110 101011101010 010111101010 110111111110 110110110 11001101100 110111111110 011001111011 11111111110 110011111 110 1 1111 1101000 11010 010110 011110 11011 11001110 10101 10111110 11110110 1111100 11110 1 1111 101111 1110011 1010101 1110 11111 111001 1001101 11011 1111111 111111 111110 1 10111 111101 11010 11110 1110010 10111 111011 111010 101101 10100111 11101 111110 1 1110101 11110 1111011 10111010 0110101 01001010 111011 111011 1101110 111011 1111011 011001 1 101011 11101 101101 011001 110010 010111 010110 011100 111010 11110 111110 110111 1 1101011 1011100 1110101 1011010 1111101 111111 11110111 110101 111111 0111111 101011 111111 1 11011100 11111 10101100 111011 1111011 1110011 1100111 0100100 110110 1111011 101100 1111110 1 11011 101111 111110 1101010 1111010 11101 1110011 111010 111110 11110 1011110 11010 1 101110 111110010 111100 11111110 101111 11110111 0111111 11111110 1100111 1101101 111110111 1111001 1 11010111 111111 1101110 11001111 11001110 1100111 01111110 110100 111010 011111101 110111010 111111 1 11110 10111110 11111 1101011110 101110 101110 1110110 1111101 11111110 111110 110100 110111 1 110110 11011 111111 111001 110100 10001011 111010 10111 110110 1111100 101100 10100110 011 1 11110111011 111001111101 101111110100 111101110010 1110011010 110111110110 110011101010 111111111100 01010101111 100101011111 1101110101110 11101101100 1011110110011 1011111111101 010101110010 10001010100010 010 1 10110010011 01111101110 11001111010 1110111 1101001110 1111011110 11001010110 1111 111101010100 11001101110 1101111011000 1011 110111010100 10111010101 1101110011 01100 111010111 11011011010 110100111110111 1111010 1011010110 111111111100 11111111101 10110 11011101011 11101010 1011011101 111110 110111111 1011010101 111110111 111101 1100111011 0111110011100 11001110110 111011 10110111110 1101110111 1101111111 111111 11010101110 101001111010 100101111111 01010 1010111110 100101111 110101111011 11101 00110111010 111010101101 1111111101 1111111 111011110 11101101011 1101101001 1111 110110101011 111010111111 1010101101110 1111 1111011011 10100110110 1100111111100 11001 10101111 100111110111 1111101101100 11100 11111111110 1010110101100 1111011110111 110100 100110110100 101100110010 111010111010 101101 11101010 11110100100 11101101 1100 1111010111110 1100101110 1110100111010111 011111 11010111111 110011110110 1110010111 111111 1 1110100 1101011 11101110 10011011 100111010 100111110 1110110 110001010 11011101 11110011 1110111 101111010 101111 10010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 57
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 324
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; s, et, la, de, le, tre, ma, son, je, un, elle, dans, nous are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words le, la, je, nous are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines s, gal, vue, teindre, tre, re, e are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase trois connects the lines.

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  • summary of La Frégate La Sérieuse;
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  • history of its creation;
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