This is an analysis of the poem Les Noyades that begins with:
WHATEVER a man of the sons of men
Shall say to his heart of the lords above,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef ghgh fifi ijij ffff kiki fgfg fafa cici lflf baba icic efef hghg ibib iXik hmhmXgkgk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100100101 1100100101 11111001101 1001011001 0011100101 1111001111 010101101 010101001 1001100111 110110111 11110111 101111011 1110100101 110111101 1010101111 100101001 111101111 0010110111 1011111011 100100111 0111110011 1101110111 101011101 111011111 1011000111 1110101111 101101111 111111111 111100101 1010101111 111101111 10101101111 101111011 011101111 110101111 0111001001 111100111 1111111101 10111101101 11111101101 111101111 11011001011 100011011 10100110111 1110101111 1101111111 111111111 101111111 111111111 111111111 1101001001 101101111 1100110111 111110111 11100101111 101101111 1111111111 111110111 1110111001 1111011001 111111101 110110101 1011101101 1100110111 1001111111 1011110111 1110100101 110101111 101111011001 10111110101 1111111111 111110101 1111110111 11110111101 111111111 110101111 1111111001 111101111 1111101110 011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of, and, lord, i, if, have, you, love, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, and, could are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase love connects the lines.
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- summary of Les Noyades;
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