This is an analysis of the poem Lettre-Océan that begins with:
Je traverse la ville nez en avant et je la coupe en 2
J'étais au bord du Rhin quand tu partis pour le Mexique...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXbaXXXXXXXXcXXbXXbXXXcaXXXXXXdXdXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 51,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101111011111111 1110111101010 111101110 101011011101 1010101011011110111 0100101010010 11111111010 1100010101010010001 10011111101110100010 01011111010111011101 10110 111 1111100110 1010 101 100110 11111 11110111 110110110 1110 1110 111111111 1010 1110 1111 011010 1111001011 10 110101000110111 110111111 011110101 10101000 1011 10111111111 1001111111110001011 10001111111111111 1111101101010110 11001001 1111111 111011101010 1000 011 10011010 1100101001100 100111 11111110101111110 010010011110 101001 11100110 11100110010 11011011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1784
- Average number of words per stanza: 359
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; la, ou, o, ro, z, ting, hou, cr are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase o connects the lines.
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