This is an analysis of the poem Le Départ that begins with:

Que la brise des mers te porte mes adieux,
O France, je te quitte; adieu, France chérie!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXAXXXXXXXXbbXXXXcXXXXbXXXXXXXXadXXXXXcXXXXbXXXXXXXXeXXXXXXXcbcXXXXXXXXXXXXAXffgXXXgXgXXXeXXXXdXXhXXXeiXXXXXebXXXXiXXXXXXbgXXXiXXXXXXXXXfXXeXXcchXXhXXXA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 153,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111110 1111110111 011101111011 0110001100 1111010011 10010101001 111000110011 1111011111 11110110 11110111 110111 111101010 0101011111011 10110101010 11001001001 11111101011 11111111011 101010110010 110111101111 1110111 1111111110110 101011110100 11010110011 0111110011 111110111010 1111011100 111110001100 0110111 1111111100 11011010 10110101110 1111110110 10111110010 111111110101 1110100111110 11111111011 1111011111 1110110110 11110110010 11000011 011011110 110110111100 111001111010 100110 1011101101 11111011010 111010100 1111111100 11101101110 11001101110 1111100 11100101 1110101111 111101101 1101111011 011100 10110100 111111100110 011001110 11011110100 0110110 11111111100 111110111111 110100100 11011100 11011111111 1101010 01011110010 1101111111 1110110011 111001111010 110010010111 11100011110111 101110100110 111100111 011101111011 0110001100 11111111011 11110011010 1111111110 10110011010 111110110100 1111111111111 111110111111 1011011011 110111111110 101101111101 10110110111 1011011110 0100110110 1101111011 1011001011 111101111 110011111 11011110 11101 0011111110 101110 1111111101010111 111110111110 110011 110101111011 111011110111 11011110011 11101000 1011010 10100011010 11111 101110 111111011001 11010111 1011011010 11011011 1001101110 010011100100 11010001010 10011011111 110111111011 10111110001 11100100 111001110 1111111111 11110011111 111111101101 0100111 101111100100 10101100 1111101110110 1111111001100 1111011010 11110011010 1010111111 1101001110 111111 1110111000 1111111010 110111111 10111011010 111010011 1101011010 1111111111 1011101111 110011101 1111011001 1110010111 1001110111011 100110110100 110011011010 11000111 1110111110 1111101 011101111011 0110001100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6665
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1294
  • Amount of lines: 153
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; adieu, s, de, tes, que, leur, des, d, ses, et, sous, les, pour, il, la, le, l, son are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words adieu, et, il are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).

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  • summary of Le Départ;
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