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

Je ne puis voir la mer sans rêver de voyages.
Le soir se fait, un soir ami du paysage, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: A XBC XaXXaX AcXaAdbX XXXXXXXXXXXa aXXXXaXX cXaXXXXXdd XXXXXXdX AXBC Xa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,6,8,12,8,10,8,4,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111110100 011111110010 1110101001 101001101011 110110011010 111011001 111000010111 1111101 110001111001 110011110010 1101111110100 01110011101 110001100110 10111100110 1101111110100 11101010111 1001111110 1000111110100 101011001110 11101011 1010011011 0110110 111110101110 01111111000 111111011011 1011111100 0111011 1100 10110011 1001011 11111110110 01011111100 1111100010 010111100 1111111101 110111110 11011101111 1110100110 11100011111 111101011 10110111 1010010111 10101111110 1110100011100 11001111101 11101111011 1111111100 111111101010 10100011110 101110111 11110110101 1011010111 11011110110 11001110100 111111110110 01110110100 11111111110100 011111110010 1110101001 101001101011 110110011010 11011011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 62
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; le, et, des, leur, la, jours, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

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