This is an analysis of the poem Océan De Terre that begins with:
J'ai bâti une maison au milieu de l'Océan
Ses fenêtres sont les fleuves qui s'écoulent de mes yeux...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101010 1101110110011 1101010111101100 1001110111110110 1010 1010 1010 1011 11001011 01011101 0101111 1101111001 010011 110100100 111101111110100 11011010010111 1001101101101110 1111110110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 682
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; les, poulpes are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words maison, saison, attention are repeated.
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- summary of Océan De Terre;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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