This is an analysis of the poem Au Nord that begins with:
Deux vieux marins des mer& du Nord
S'en revenaient, un soir d'automne, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXX XXaXXXXXbXXbcXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXc XccXXcXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,18,11,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101101 11001110 011010111000 1011010 01 1010110011 10110100 1010110001 11111101 11010110 0111101 11001111 11000111 1101001 101110 110 100011 111111011101 111001011 01010 01010111010 1001011110 110011111 11010 11100010 1110110 111111 11010 100110 110111110010 11010 0111011 111011011000 1111001 11110001110 11101010011 111111 11101011 1111001111 11001101100 10011011110 101001110 1010101 101101110 111010110 1110110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 390
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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, un, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word les is repeated.
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- summary of Au Nord;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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