This is an analysis of the poem Le Bateau Ivre that begins with:

Comme je descendais des Fleuves impassibles,
Je ne me sentais plus tiré par les haleurs : ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX aXXX aXXX aXXX XXXX XbXb XbXb XccX XXXX XXXX XXaX XXXX XaXa XXXX aXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX XaXX XaXX cXXX XXXb XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111001101000 1111110111110 111011101110 11011110010 1100011100 100110101010 1101101101100 110111011110 1110001011 111011111010 11101110010 11101010110 110111101 11101011111 101010100100 11110011110 111010111101 11111010 1110011111000 110110100110 11111111101 01110101100 10110111001 1111101001 110111110 110111100001 1101101101110 10011010010 1111110111110 1110111011101 110101010100 1111101111011 1110011110100 100001100100 10110010101 111011110010 111111101 101011111010 110101110 11111110010 1101111001100 100111011 110111100110 10100111010 111011000100 111111101 10111110111 11001101010 1111001111010 1101111110 110011011100 111011101000 1010101101010 1010111101 1110110100 111010100101 1010101101100 011110111010 1100111110 11000111110 1010111111 111010101101 10111110110010 111101010110 101001111100 111010100111 111101010111 1110010100 1110101110110 1110011110 1111001110110 101111011 1101010100 11101100111 11100101110 110001111010 11010100100 1101110001 11101010101 111000110100 1110101101 011111101 1010110001 111010110100 111110010111 11110110110 011111111111100 101011010 111111101100 110110110110 110110101000 11111111 11111110111 1111101010 111100101001 11011110001 1111111011010 1001100110010 1100101101110 110111100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 100
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, un, ni are repeated.

    The author used the same word j'ai at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Le Bateau Ivre;
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  • history of its creation;
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