This is an analysis of the poem Le Roc that begins with:
Sur ce roc carié que fait souffrir la mer,
Quels pas voudront monter encor, dites, quels pas ?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab ca dDXaX DEaXXX aE cX XXX bXXXX XXXd aD XXX eeX XXXffX aeXX XX bXXXXXXXX aad XXeXdXeXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,5,6,2,2,3,5,4,2,3,3,6,4,2,9,3,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111011 111010111011 1010111101111 10011101011 1111111 10101111011 111101 11101111 01100110 10101111011 1110110001 10111101101 10111001 101111011100 110111 101111011 1110110001 11011001 11001011110 11101110011 1111111 100011001 1111101010 1100101 111001111 101101100 101111100 10101110 1011010 1110110 10111111 1111011011 10101111011 101110101 01111111 11100110 11010100110 111010110 1000111011 101111011100 111001011 11110100011 11101001111 101100111110 1111101011 111101111 101101001 11101011 0100110111 10111111101 101001110111 100111101100 1111101110 1101110100 110111 1111111100 1011011011010 1110111111110 1111011100 11011101 111101111 1010111101011 1010111101011 111010001 110011111110 11111111 11111110 11110111 10111110 1010110001 1101101 111111010 10111110
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; mon, me, de, des, et, les, sans, qui are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, dites, sans are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, e, s, tre, mer are repeated).
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- summary of Le Roc;
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