This is an analysis of the poem Sacra Fames (La Faim Sacrée) 1884 that begins with:
L' immense mer sommeille. Elle hausse et balance
Ses houles où le ciel met d' éclatants îlots....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaX bXXX XXXX cdcX XbXX XXXX XdXd XXXX XXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 10111011110 11010111101 111110111010 1100100110111 111011111111 0100111100 1011011011 111011100100 10110011110 10111011110 11110110100 11011011100 100101111111 010111011 111110111101 101101011001 1011010011001 1110110101100 111110011001 10111111100 11111111111111 1100111110 111101111111 111011110011 101111111111 11101111101011 11101011110 111110111011 1111111111110 11011111 10101110011 01111101101 1110111110 1100011111000 111101010110 10111111100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; d', et, la, de, l', qui, ou, tu, plus are repeated.
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