This is an analysis of the poem Le Torrent Et La Digue that begins with:
Un torrent, qui de ses ravages
Avait longtemps désolé ses rivages,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXb XXXXX aXXXXa XXXXXXXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,6,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101100 101011100 11101111011 11000111 1010011110 1111100100100 111001001 1111111111110 111110 011011101011 01111111110010 11111100 1101100 111100 111111111 10011110101 111010101110 1111110110 01101011010 1100100 110100110100 10110011110 10001111010 11110110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ses, je, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words oui, les are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es is repeated).
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- summary of Le Torrent Et La Digue;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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