This is an analysis of the poem Les Marées that begins with:

Mon coeur se desemplit d'une immense rancune
Qui retire sa mer sous quelque occulte lune....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaX XXXXXXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 111110010110 1011111101 1111110010 11011111011 1110011011 101001111 1101011110 1100011010 101111110110 11011111110 110100110111 101010101 10111111 11111101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; pour is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word pour is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nus, e are repeated).

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  • summary of Les Marées;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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