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

Sur les bords d'un fleuve limpide,
Un pauvre pêcheur arrêté,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXXaXXXbXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXccXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110 1111 11110 110111 1101110 11100100 1100110 11010111 10100100 100110 11110110 1001011 1001110 1111100 11110 01111000 11101010 111001 11101100 01110110 1101110 1100110 10011001 1011001 1110110 0101010 111111010 1110110 111100 110100 110111 11110111 111101100 1001011 01110100 11111011 111101 10101110 1111010 1110111 01101100 11011110 110111111 11100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1336
  • Average number of words per stanza: 243
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, la are repeated.

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

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