This is an analysis of the poem L'Homme Et La Mer (Man And The Sea) that begins with:
Homme libre, toujours tu chériras la mer!
La mer est ton miroir; tu contemples ton âme...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXc daXd XXXe XXfX Bbghc dfiX fihe cejh X B egge dkkd laal hffh g B bgXm affa miim cjcj X a bggb effe nehX Xnnm Xe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111011011 1101110110011 10100100011 11011111110 11110110110 110011111111 111010001110 11011100110 111111110 1111010110 1111101100100 11110010110 110011101000 111100110110 100110010111 101011000 1101 1110111001 010110110111 001001000010 110101101110 1101000100110 10100111111 001011001100 10100111100 1011101100 111110010110 111101111010 1100111110 111010111110 01100101 1101111011 101010010010 010110100 1101 1111110110 1001011111 0001011111 1011110101 0101010101 1101011101 0111010101 01001111001 01011100111 1111010011 1111011111 1111000111 1111010101 1101011101 1101110101 01010010101 0101110 1101 111101010011 011101110111 110000010110 110101101100 110100110001 010001111101 011001000101 00111001101 101101010100 1111010110110 1111110101010 110101011100 1111010111110 010101010001 1101010001010 110111010101 0101110 1101 1101111111 0111011111 0001010101 1101010101 1101110101 1011011111 1011010101 1111100001 0111111101 1111011101 1111110100 1100110110 11110101000 110100111110 10111111010 11001110100 0101101011
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 95
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ton, et, de, tes, vous, sea, your, of, to, you, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words tu, you, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sea is repeated).
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