This is an analysis of the poem Sur La Mer that begins with:
Larges voiles au vent, ainsi que des louanges,
La proue ardente et fière et les haubans vermeils, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa bXXX XbXX XXcX XddX XXXX XaXX XXXX XXcX XXXc eXXX XbXX XXXX XeXX cXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101110 1110110111010 011010001110 101011001001 1111100111 11001101110 10101100110 10101011111 1111001101 0101010111 110110110001 11011011001 111011010110 101100100110 11101010101111 10101111100 1111111100 10001111101 10101110101 101011111011 111111110010 1101011111 11101011100 1100110110 110110101 1101010101 110001001100 111110110 110011111001 111111110100 1110111010 011010010010 11110010111 101100011001 0101101101 10110011011 100111111011 110010101010 101100101100 11011101011 110011001011 1110101001 111110110010 111001111110 11101110100 11101111101 11001111111000 11101100110 11011011110 11101101 11001110010 011001110110 1111111011010 111111101 111110110010 1011111100 11110111111 11111111001 10001011100 111010110010
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 60
- 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; de, les, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ce is repeated.
The author used the same word les at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Sur La Mer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Emile Verhaeren
- Analysis of Sur Les Grèves
- Analysis of Tout Ce Qui Vit Autour De Nous
- Analysis of Très Doucement, Plus Doucement Encore
