This is an analysis of the poem Les Pêcheurs that begins with:
Le site est floconneux de brume
Qui s'épaissit en bourrelets,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa XbXX cXcX XbXbXX XbXXb XXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXXdXXXX dXeXXeXX XXXXbX XdbX XX dXXXaaXXXX XXbdXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,6,5,5,7,12,8,6,4,2,10,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110001 1101100 10111110 111101 0111000 1100101010 111111 10101101 10111010100 1000110011 100111 1110110 110010101 111111110 11001011 11101100 110111011 1101101 1110111 1101110 1010110110 11111010000 11011011 01101011 011111010 11011110 110111 1111111 11110100 11111110 111111 111 11001100 11001110 11101110 1111110 101011111 11011100101 1100110 11010110111 111001000 100011101 11111 1001101110101 1010011 110111 01101100 111110 111010100 11011011 110110 1101011 110011110 11101111 11000101 1110111110 10001010 11101110 11010010 111011111 1111111101 10011001 0110011 1110110 111011 1111011110 1111111101 11111111 1101111 1011111100 111111100 11101011 0111011 101110110 0101110 1111111 1111111 11011100 11111010011100 10001110 1101000 1110110 1110100 10111011 1111101111 1101010 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 87
- 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; les, minuits, et, aux, de, leur are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words les, et are repeated.
The author used the same words le, les 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 re is repeated).
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- summary of Les Pêcheurs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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