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

Tu nous rends nos derniers signaux;
Le long du bord le câble crie;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXXXXXXXbXXcXXXXXXXXddXXXeXfgcXXXXXeXXXXXXXXXXXXXhXXXcXXXeiXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXfbXXeXcXXgXXhXXXXXXiX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 100,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111010 0101011 111111 11101100 111111 1111110100 111010 110111100 111111011 1100101 111110011 11010110 111111 111111011 10111110 1110111 111110 101110110 11111111111 0111011 1101101 10011010 1101111 1110010 01110110 1101111 11111101 1110100 11011110 11110110 1111101 1101101 11010101 111110010 11101011 111101011 01110111 1100010 1011110 1100110 11011011 100111100 1110111 11111110 11011110 1110011 1110110 11010100 11011100 11001011 0110110 101111101 11101110 11010110 11100110 11010100 101011110 011111 1101110 1111110 1011100 11001000 11101111 1110011 101101 1101110 10101100 10111100 1111011 1011100 1101011 10011011 111011 11011110 1101110 11110110 1010110 111111110 1111110 1011011 11010101 1001110 1111110 1111101 11010011 1101110 1011100 11101110 010111100 10110100 11101100 1110011 11111010 11011111 1101010 011100 10110011 11011110 1111011 111111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3237
  • Average number of words per stanza: 630
  • Amount of lines: 100
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; je, les, il, s are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words il, dont 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 Voyageur;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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