This is an analysis of the poem Les Tours Au Bord De La Mer that begins with:
Veuves debout au long des mers,
Les tours de Lisweghe et de Furnes...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX aXXX XXXX XXbX XXXX XcXXaXX XaXXXXaX XadXXXXXbX XXXbaXXddaXcXcXXXb XbXXaXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,7,8,10,18,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101111 110101010 10111110 111001000 101101 10111011 101110 101100110 10110011 11101011 10101011 11101011 1111010 0110100 11101011 1111011 1110111 111110 111011010 11001100 10 11 111001100 1110111100 11011101 101111010100 10110101101 1111111 10111111 10111110 11011 1111111 111001101110 111111100011 0100101010 1110111010 11011010110 11011 1000 111111100111 01101111 1010111010 111 111111111111 1100111111 110111111 101111011100 1011010110 110111110111 101011001100 1011010110 10101110 101110110 10100110100 111011101111 11111110011 111101101 1011011010 1011111001 10111110010 11111111111 11011111011110 11101111011 111110110110 101111011101 110111110111 11111110111 110011111 1011010111000 110100111011 11110111000 1110100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; des, depuis, quels, la, de, et, d'autres, sans, les, tours, leur, coeur, pays, ou, chaque, mes, sur are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words depuis, debout, sans, pays are repeated.
The author used the same word quand at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Les Tours Au Bord De La Mer;
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- idea of the verse;
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