This is an analysis of the poem Brise Marine that begins with:

La chair est triste, hélas ! et j'ai lu tous les livres.
Fuir ! là-bas fuir! Je sens que des oiseaux sont ivres ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111111110 11111111110110 110110111 1111101111 11100111111111 11111011 1011011101 11111100111 111001010011 111110010 1010111110 111101110 111111001100 1101101111100 10111111001 11110011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 384
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, la, m, ts are repeated.

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  • summary of Brise Marine;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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