This is an analysis of the poem La Rivière Et Le Torrent that begins with:

Une rivière aux fertiles rivages
Roulait ses flots d’azur à travers des vallons...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXXXXXX XaXXXXXXXXXXbXXXX XXXXXXcXXXXXXX bcbcXXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,17,14,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101100100 10111010110 1000100010 111100101100 110110110110 11101100100 111011110110 10110100 1100111010 0101110 10111011110100 1111010 110111111 1000110111 101101111 111111011 11110110011 1010101110 1011100 111101011101 11111 10010110 10011011010 11101 1111010111 10111110 11111111011 1110100 111011 11101110011 00111111111 11011111101 101110110 1111110 1111010 111111110010 11101111 1111110101 111111100 111011110100 111110111000 1011100 11101111011 0111011001001 01011011110 10011100101 01111110 1111010111 11111110110 11111 1111101100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 430
  • Average number of words per stanza: 80
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; ses, et, sur, de, e, la, d, mes are repeated.

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

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  • summary of La Rivière Et Le Torrent;
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