This is an analysis of the poem Les Voyageurs that begins with:
Et par le traître écho des horizons plongeurs,
Et par l'antique appel des sybilles lointaines,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101010 1110101100100 111111011 111111011100 10 11110010 10101011101 11101101011 1110101111100 111101111 11011110010 111110011011 110111111110 111001010110 010111111001 11111111110 1001111010100 111111101110 101111111010 111011101110 100011111010 11101010010 1110001001 101100101010 1110110111 11110101100 1011101010100 1111101011100 11111111010 1110101110 11101011101 11111111110 0111011010 101110111101 0101101100100 010111101000 11010111100 110011110001 11100101110 111110101100 1111011110 111110010010 111110101110 1111111010 11101110100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; des, et, par, les, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, le are repeated.
The author used the same word et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Les Voyageurs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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