This is an analysis of the poem L'Horizon Chimérique that begins with:

Je suis né dans un port et depuis mon enfance
J’ai vu passer par là des pays bien divers....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXb XXXa XcXX aXad X XXXe XXfX XXXX X XeXX XXXg eXae XXXX X XXXX eXXX XXgb X XbXX XaXa XXXh X XXXX XXXf X XXXXXXXX XahXh X XicX XXXX e X XXXX XXXX hXX jje X aXai XXXX eXXa X XXXX XXXXX XXdX XXXX X XXaX XXXX XXXX X XeaaX XedX eXXX aXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,1,8,5,1,4,4,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,4,4,4,1,4,5,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,5,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111110110 111101111110 10011110110 111101010011 111011111111 110111011000 0101011101100 1011101111001 11101110110 1100111010 111011111100 1100111111 111110100111 111101111111010 111010101 1110101111111 1000 110100111 11110011010 111001011 11110111010 110011110011 111000100110 11110110111 1111101011000 11110110110 1110110100 1110111011 11110010111 1000 10110011100 111111101111 1111101111110 111110101000 1111101110000 1110111110 111001111111 11010111001 111100111011 1110100110 11011100110 100111111 1001001001100 11111010011 110111010 110110110 1000 01101011010 1011110100 01111101110 1111110111010 10101011010 111111010 110111101 1110011111 110111111 11111010110 011101010101 1111010011 100 1011101111 0100110110111 010100101100 1111111101 111010110 1101011011 111101011100 11111011111101 111011111111 001111101110 1110111111 11011100011 1000 1011101110 011001101110 11111111011 110100101100 101001101110 11010001011 11010110111 111001011111 1000 01010110110 1111011010 1111111000111 10101111010 01111001100 01101011010 01110110011 11011111100 11001011010 11011011010 100011111011 111010111 1111111011 1000 1111011111010 101100111111111 1011101011111 111111100 11001111101 1101111010 11011111010 11100010110 11111010010 1000 110111010 10101011011 101101111100 100101110111 1101011110 10010110110 1011110100 10011001010 11011111101 110101111 11011111010 11001110010 11110110011 1011101111001 100 1101011110 1100111110 1111010011 111101111 101100100110 10011101100 10110110100 0101000111 111111111111 11001111101 11100111110 110101110010 1000 0111011 11111111 11000100110 001101111011 1111101100 10011011101 1111011111010 0111101101 1000 100101011110 11110100110 11011110101 110001111110 111101011101 110110101111 01110111011 1111111101 1000 11011011111 1111011101100 111111111011 01011111101 01100110110 11110111111 11010110110 110111111010 1011011111 01111011111 110001111100 11010110111 1000 1111100111011 111111111110 11110111110 1101011010100 111011111110 11011101111 11110111100 1111111111111101 1110111111110 10111111001 11001111111 11111101011010 1111111111 1111101111010 11110100110 111010111100 111111001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 54
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 182
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; des, et, le, s, les, d, de, toi, la, mer, ne, je are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words le, souffle, la are repeated.

    The author used the same words je, tu 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 es is repeated).

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  • summary of L'Horizon Chimérique;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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