This is an analysis of the poem Le Passeur D'Eau that begins with:
Le passeur d'eau, les mains aux rames,
A contre flot, depuis longtemps, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXa XXXX XXXXX XXb XXac XXXX XXb XXXXXXX XXXX XXcXXXXX XXb XXaXXX XcXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,5,3,4,4,3,7,4,8,3,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111110 0111010 1011011011 111101 1111011 1011111110 10110100 1101011 1010111010 0100101100 0111111 1110100 111010 101010 01100111 111101 1110110110 1110011 11011001 01011011100 11110011 11111010 11111001110 111010010 101010 1101111 1101010 1111110 111011110 10011111110 10100 11111100 01001110 111101 11101010 1110001 110001 0101110010 11111 101011011 101110111111 1101100 1010100 110101011 01001111 111010 101010 111111 01011110 1001111 11100110 11101111 1100101011 1101101 1101110 10111011 100110110 10101110 101111111111 01011011
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; le is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word il is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tendue, rive are repeated).
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- summary of Le Passeur D'Eau;
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- idea of the verse;
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