This is an analysis of the poem Le Navire that begins with:
Nous avancions, tranquillement, sous les étoiles ;
La lune oblique errait autour du vaisseau clair, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba XXXX XXXX cXcX XXXb XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010001110 110110100101 11001110111 10011111111 111001110 100110110011 11010011111 1111011011 10111001011010 010101111011 110111001110 11100101111101 11101111 110110011010 1111011111 11010111010 11100100110 1110111110 1110010011 101010101011 110110111110 1010111110 1100101101000 1010110010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, et, se are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
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- summary of Le Navire;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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