This is an analysis of the poem Kéris that begins with:

Comme, sur un rocher de l’île, loin des grèves,
Les yeux demi-perdus dans le soleil levant,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaX bcXb XXXX XXXX XXaX XXXX XXXd eXfX X XXXX gXfh ebbf XXXb XXXX XeXf XXXX XiiX XXXX XXhX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XffX XXXa XXXd XXXX bjXX XXXj fXXf XXXX XbXk aXXa XaXX gXXX eXjX eXXf XXeX XXXX XXai fXXe XXXX XXhe jXXX XXXX XXXX bXXX lXXl mnXb X XXXX XXXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111001111 111010100101 100011110001 1101011110011 1111001010011 11111111010 1111011101 10110111001 1011001111 11111100101110 10110111110 100111011 1011011111 111111110 1111111111100 1111000111 11111100011 11001011000 111111110 111011101010 101001111100 10101101111 1100111 1111111110110 11110001110 100100110010 110110101101 1111011110 1110111110110 1000101011010 1110100111110 111101110111 1 111110010 11111011111 1101010110 111101110 11101101111 101100111010 1111101110 11010010111 10101111101 11001001 1101000011101 10010111101 11110110010 1010011001 1110111101 111100111 1010111000100 1011010100 11111110111 1111111110110 1111111010 1111100110 101100111100 111001111 1010110110011 1011100111 1111011010 110110101111 1010110110 11011110010100 11110010110 011110111001 1011101111 11110110010 10111011111100 1111111011110111 11111101100 101011111 1101101100111 1110011110 1011010111 111110110000 1110111100 110101111111 110110100110 11011101100 1101101011000 11011010110 1101111010 1011111010 110101110010 111011111 110110110101 11111111111 11111111 11111010001 1110110101 111111010 101100110 1001111001 10111100110 11011111101 0100100111011 11111111011 11110110010 11010111011 1111111011011 1101001110 10101111010 10011010101 1111111110 101001001100 1111011111 010111100001 111110110010 111011110111 1101111111 11101110110 1111101111101100 10101010111 1110111101 10110101111 11111111101 1111111101 10111110100 1110101000010 0110011011110 101110011100 111001111111 11010111011 111011101111 1100110011 11111111111 11111010111 11010101110 011011101 1101010111 111110010001 11011110001 011000111 10110111001 11111110110 111111011 110111110111 1110111100101 010110100110 110101010011 111111111 11101111111 111110101110 111000111100 1111001111 1111111101110 01101111010 11011111 11110110110 111101101 111111111110 1101110110 110100011010 1111111100 11101111010 10110101010 111110100111 10111110111 11101110100 1011010111 101111110111 111111110 11101111100 11111110110 111011101110 111011110 11111111 1011110111 11011010111 11011111001 110111101011 111111110 1100100011 111101111010 110101101 1111011101 111111111011 1110011110 111011010 0100111111110 11100110010 101010111 11100111111 101111110101 110010111 11011001111 1011111110110 111111110 11101011 10101111101 10101110010 111010111101 11011001111 1 11101011010 1011111110 11111111100 1111101101100 101100111101 1111111111 11001100111 1111111111 11110111100 10010101101 1111011111 111101110 1110111011100 101100110011 11101111010 110100111010 1010110011 10110111100 11111110110 10011111101 11110111100 11101111100 1110101101 101010100 1011101000100 101110101110 110110101110 0111101111000 110011101 10101110110 1110011001 11011010111 111010100111 1011001101 11000111110 011000101001 1101111101 110100111100 1110110111 10111101110 111010111010 10011011101 1101101111 110100110011 01111011100 11001110 111011011 1011011011 111110110010 1111011111 111111110010 1111001 11111110 1011011101 101101110110 11110101001 11111011011 110011011110 1111111101 110001110101 1101110110 1101011110101 11010110111 101010110100 110101111 1001111101 111101001011 110101100101 110101111110 101101110 110111010 111111001 1010101110 1110111101 11110101 11101101011 11010011 10111001100 1110110110100 10011010100 1110111110 1010100100010 101001101100 11011011110 111111011001 1110101011 1001001111 101011100 0111111111010 1101111001 1111110110 11100110001 100010100010 001100111001 11111111001 10101101010 1111010011 11001001101 1101111111 111001010111 10110110100 1110011010 111010111 11000110111 11011100001 11100110010 1111001111 11101010111 10111000 1111111010 11100100110 1110111110 1100111001100 11111011001 111001101111 1101111100 11011101100 11111100110 11010011110 111011110 110110110 010111111010 11111000111101 10101100110 10011010111 10010011110 11011100010 0110011110 11110111011 100010100110 11110110010 1001010011100 111101111000 1110111110 1010101110 11001110100 1 10100111100 1010110110 1101101101 1010111010 111101101 11111110 101010110 1110001011 11111111100 11110111111 1101111111 111011101110 01100110100 10101010101 1011110011 110100110110 1011111010 11110011110 1011011111 1000101001111 1101011010 111110101010 11011011111 101010111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 91
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 358
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, pas, un, et, les, le, je, qu, la, tu, mer, toi, l, re, en, nous, s, ah are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words tant, la, trois, ils, elle, il, les, l 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.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tre, te, talons, ne, e, mes, me, s, ge, mon are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase roi connects the lines.

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  • summary of Kéris;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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