This is an analysis of the poem Sur Les Grèves that begins with:

Sur ces plages de sel amer
Et d'âpre immensité marine, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXc XXdXXe XXXXXXdabXX XXXcXcfXg eghhXXg XcXXcXXgf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,11,9,7,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100110 1110001 11111100 101011 1100101 10001100 10111011 011011 11111110 11111111 1111111 100100 1100111 1101010 101111011 1111011010 110111 111001001010 111011 1110 0100011010 0110101101 11011101 111001101100 10111110011 110101111100 01010011 1100110001 1111011111111 11111110 11001101 11 11 1010100011 1111110 1110 01011 11111110 110110011 1011010 1010101 11010111 1110101101010 10011 0110111011 111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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, le, tout, se, la are repeated.

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  • summary of Sur Les Grèves;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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