This is an analysis of the poem Le Ramasseur D'Épaves that begins with:
L'ombre qui sous la lune
Tombait, longue et pâle, des dunes,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab aXb XXXX XXXX XXXX aXccX XbXX XbXXXXXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,4,4,5,4,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 1011111 1011110011 0111100011 111101011 10110111 01101010 1010101110 1111 10011110111 111111110 1101011110 1101111 1110111111 01001111111 101101 110111 111 1110111 1100110 1010001 1010101010 1111 11111011101 11101101011 1111111111 011010101110 1111111 1111001 111010101010 101010 111101100 1111111110 11010100 101111110011 11001111011 10100111010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; la, et, puis, de, il, toujours are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word un is repeated.
The author used the same word il 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 te, es are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word mer at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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