This is an analysis of the poem Le Chaland that begins with:
Sur l'arrière de son bateau,
Le batelier promène...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaXaX XXXXX XXXXb XXcX XXcXXX cXXXXcX XcXXXXXX XbXdXXc XXXdbXbXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,5,5,4,6,7,8,7,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100110 01001 1101 1110 101101111 11 1000101011 1010111 111101 110100 11011110 11101110 101011111 1111 1111010 01001 1101 1110 11010110 10111010 101101011 1011111100 1010111011 1000110 1101100 11111110 10101011 1111110 11001101 11000101 1111111 11001011 111111 110110101 11100010 10000111101 1100 10101010 010 1110111100 01 10100110 111011110 111011110 1110 1110111000 111101111001 1110100 0111 1111011110 1111111111 01111010 111001100 11101100 100110 1111 11010111 110110001 1100111001 11101000 110111 11100100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; et, le, les, quai, la, de, il are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, il, quai are repeated.
The author used the same word il at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Le Chaland;
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