This is an analysis of the poem Banalité that begins with:
L’océan d’argent couvre tout
Avec sa marée incrustante....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX aXXX XXX XXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 101011 1011100 1101101 0111111 111110101 1101111 11101010 11101011 101111 11110 11111010 1101100 10111100 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; d, l are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Banalité;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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