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

Partir avant le jour, à tâtons, sans voir goutte,
Sans songer seulement à demander sa route ; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXaXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001011111 11010010011 1001111111010 111010101010 111110100110 11101010011 1011001001100 11110011101 110110110 1001001110100 1101011110 1100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 533
  • Average number of words per stanza: 93
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.

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  • summary of Le Voyage;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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