This is an analysis of the poem Mets-Moi Dessus La Mer D'Où Le Soleil Se Lève that begins with:
Mets-moi dessus la mer d'où le soleil se lève,
Ou près du bord de l'onde où sa flamme s'éteint ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1110111001111 1101011111 11111111010 111101111101 111101011111 111011010 11111111001 101011111111 111111111110 11111111 111111110 11100110111 11101011111101 111001010110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, ou, mets, moi are repeated.
The author used the same word mets 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 ve is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words ve, re at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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