This is an analysis of the poem Départ that begins with:
La mer choque ses blocs de flots, contre les rocs
Et les granits du quai, la mer démente, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXaaX XXXXb XXXX XXbXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,5,4,6,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101111 111001111 101101110 0110100 11001110110 1111101110 01111100110 1111110111 100101 10111111100 111110111100 11011011110 11101 10111 111011 10111001 111100001 11111111101 1000010 110101110 11111100 111001 011010 101101011110 1001110110 1010111110 1110111000 01010100 0101100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; la, les, s, et, leurs, ses, vers, quels are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines s is repeated).
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- summary of Départ;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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