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

Ravi des souvenirs clairs de l’eau dont s’abreuve
La terre, j’ai conçu cette chanson du Fleuve....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX aXXXXXbbccX XXXXXbXXXXXXXXXX bXc XXXdXaXXXXX XXXXXXXXcXeX XXXXccXdXf XX XXXXXXXXXcXX XXXcXXdXXXX XXbXXggX XXXXXXbhXXX fXhX hXXiXX eXXddXXdd XXXXXXXbXXXcidjXXdhhXeXXXXXb bXXXbXX bbeeXXXXXbeeaj XdXXXXXd cX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXe eXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,11,16,3,11,12,10,2,12,11,8,11,4,6,9,28,7,14,8,2,8,7,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101101110 1111011001 10100111111 11001110111 11100110111 1010111011111 111111110011 11111110011 110110110100 110101111010 01001111110 1111101110010 10111110101 111110111011 110011111 100101111 1011101110110 1010101111100 01010101101111 1111111101 1101101101010 101111111110 11001010111 1101010110 11010011110010 1011011011110 11101010100 1100111110100 01 110101011 1101111100 1001101111 1111111011 111110110111 101010111 10011010110 11101110010 1000010111 11010001110 1010110110 111110111010 1111011111 11000111110 10110111111 11011010110 1111100101 11110110011 10101111110 01101101100 01101101011 01010110010 11011011110 111111001 11010111011 1111110 111101101110 110100111100 1101011010000 1101101011110 11101111111 11011101011 1011010111 101111111111 101101110100 101011111001 110011101010 1101011110 1110010100 11011101110 11100110110 1001001111 01110010 110 1001101110 10001011011 1011010110 101110111010 0101111010 111011111111 111001111000 11010101010 11101100100 11101010011 1011011011 1110001011 111011101 010101111010 111011101100 10001011101 01110 10011 111111101100 1011111100010 101110101010 10101101110 1011011110 11111111111 11110111010 1101011001 11001101111 1111111111 11111010010 00111011101 1101111110 1110110110 11101111111 11010101110 1000101010100 1101001110010 1011010001 11011111101 1011001010 111010110 111 110110111000 111011011100 11100100101 01101111010 11011111010010 110011101 1110101110 11100111101100 110011111010 100100101101 111101110100 1001101011110 11110101101 11010111111 01101111100 011111110100 111010111000 111001101100 101001111111 100111111100 11100 1011111 111010111011 11011110010 111111111010 1111101010 1011010111 11111010110 11011101111 110011011111 11001110 11 110100110011 10100101110 10101111110 11 11010111010 1111101011 0110001010 0101011011 101011011 1101111001 111011111 1111001110 111110100111 110111111010 111111110011 10011111010 10110111010 0110101111 101100110100 1101001101 10011100111 01110100111 011101111 11101101110 0111001101 100111100100 110101101101 1011010011 11101001111 1101110011 11101111111 101011010111 11110110111 111100110100 1110010110 1010111101 11011011010 11100101101000 11111101101 1011111001 011110110010 111101110 100110100110 11001110011 10110111011 11001010110 10110110011 11111010110 111111111010 110111111 1111110011 11110011110 11110110110 11110111110 111101100111 11101110111 11111010111011 11100111111 11011110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 395
  • Average number of words per stanza: 75
  • Amount of lines: 206
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; le, et, s, l, de, que, d, les, des, qu, la, aux are repeated.

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

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es, s, e, che, court, res, re are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word fleuve at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Le Fleuve;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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