This is an analysis of the poem L'Escaut that begins with:

Et celui-ci puissant, compact, pâle et vermeil,
Remue, en ses mains d'eau, du gel et du soleil ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXXa XXaXb XXXXX XXXXX cXdXXXX XXXXX XcXXXXa XXXXXX bXXadXXd XXXXXXcXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,5,5,7,5,7,6,8,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110101110 11111011001 11011101110 110111111011 1111111001 1101111011 11111101110 111100 1011000111 1111010111 110110111001 111010010111 1001101101 111000010111 1111011010110 1101011011 1110110010 110111011000 111110110110 1110111 111100110 1101011011 110111111111 1110111101111 111110101100 101110111100 1011001110 11111011100 11011011100 111111100100 11011100110 11101101110 1010101101 0100 11100100 10110110110 11110 11011 111110 1101001110010 1100111101100 1111011 111101101 1111101110 1110100 1110110 1101110010110 1100110100 111011110 11110011011 1110111011 110111101110 11011111 1111110101 110111111 111111001 1011111 10 101110 110 011010011 1110 10 01110001 11111111 1010011 1110111101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 67
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; et, de, la, tes, un are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word et 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, res, escaut are repeated).

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  • summary of L'Escaut;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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