This is an analysis of the poem La Bénédiction De La Mer that begins with:
Les guirlandes du vent joli
Tournent, gaîment, autour des Mâts ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa X XbcXXc XXXXbd XXX XXXXXXXXXXee XXXXXXecXX XXXXXXeXXXX dXbX XXXXXX aXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,6,6,3,12,10,11,4,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000110 10101011 11011011 11001110 1110101110 11001101110 111111111 111001 1011011 10101111111 10111111111 111011001 10111001000 1111111 0101010 111011100 111011111 110110110 01101001 111011010 1110 11101110 10010011001 1100111010 111101101000 1011111110 11110110001 11101111010 111101111100 110011110110 1011101010101 1111011101 1110101111 0110011 1010 1111111 1011110 1111001011 11101101 111010110011 10001011010 1101100111 1101110 1101111100 1110101110100 11101101 111111111110 100100 1011 110 11100111101 101011 11011 1010010010 11100100 1001111 100111 111111110 1111111100110 111001011 1110111 011100 01101011 100111111 10111011110 1011011011 110101011100 101110110 11111100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 69
- 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; des, aux, et, la, les, de, saint, le are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
The author used the same words sur, 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 res, bres are repeated).
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- summary of La Bénédiction De La Mer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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