This is an analysis of the poem Promenade Au Lido that begins with:

Arrête, gondolier; que ta barque un moment
Cesse de fendre les lagunes;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbaXXbXXcXcdXXXXXXXXXXXXXefXXXbgXXXXXcXXXXddXgXXXXXXXXfXXfXXXXXcXXXXXbXeXXXXXaXXXXXXXXbXXXhXXhXXXXffabXXXXXXXXXXXXhXXXccXXXXhaXaXXXXaXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 139,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111110 1011100 10101110100 11101011 10111101111110 11011000 01010110 10110110011 1101010110100 11111111 1101011 11101010101 11101011 1011011111 1100111110 100110100100 1101111111 101010111000 01111110010 1101101011100 1101111111 110100111010 1001101011 111110110110 1101111111 101111 1111111111 101101100 110101110010 10111110100 101110010010 10101011001 1010010110011 1111111110 100110110100 01110011110 11111001110 110110110110 1101101110 111111101 11011011100 111110010110 10110110101 111010101110 1111001 010111111011 111100111010 111101110110 11011011101 110101 11011110010 1011110111 11001101010 1011011101 1111100111 11011011100 11111111111 11110100 111111101100 1100011001 1110101110100 11100101110 11110111111 110011111110 101100111100 010010110110 1101101000 110111100110 1111011100 1111010111110 1111101101100 110101100 11000110 101111001100 1110111110 111101101 011100101110 1011010111 1101101111 11011010111 111011011 11101011111 111111101000 11011010 10011111111000 111111110 1101110011 111011111100 11100111101 100101101100 11010110 1100110 1110101 101111 10111110 1011101 111011 1111110111 01001001011 101110 10100110111 10111011 110110 11101110111 101110101100 100110110110 1101101000110 10011100 11001111001000 10011100 11100110 100111111110 110111110 101011110010 10111110110 11101111111 11011110111 0110111011 11011001 101011110110 11011110 11011010111 11111101100 101111111000 100111101 11001110 1101001 11111010011 11111111110 1101011011 11110011 1111101111 0100111011 11001100 1100110 10111101101100 11110111000 11111000 01010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6028
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1154
  • Amount of lines: 139
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; des, les, d, s, sont, o, vos, de, le, vous, il, ces, pour, ses, la are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words dans, vous are repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase s connects the lines.

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