This is an analysis of the poem Le Port that begins with:

Toute la mer va vers la ville !
Son port est surmonté d'un million de croix :...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: A XX XX XX bX bX A bXXXaXXcXXbXXXX A XdXXX XbXXXXXX AXXcXXXXXXeXe A XX XX dXXX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,2,2,1,15,1,5,8,13,1,2,2,4,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 11011011001 101000100111 110110111010 1001111110101 1101100101110 1100110111011 1101100110001 10111010100 110110011010 1010101111000 1111111 111100111 1111110 111111101010 101000111100 11011101011 11111111000 11110101111 111110111111 1001101011000 11111111110 1010101110001 1010101100100 1110110110 1111110 011110111000 1111111 11010100 11101011110 11101110011 1111111110 111001100 101111011 1101101111 111011111 1011101011 111 111111 1110111111 1001011100 1111111 11101011 1111110 111010111101 1111101011000 111110100 11110011 110011101110 11001100100 111111110 11110111110 11110110110 0100110 1111111 110110110001 11001101100 11011011011110 1110011111110 1101110011011 11011111110 110110001010 0101101111100 110110001010 111010011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 65
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; et, de, les, flots, elle, vers, morts, la, mer, des are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words les, et, elle, la are repeated.

    The author used the same words son, toute 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 e is repeated).

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  • summary of Le Port;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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