This is an analysis of the poem Sur La Rive D'Un Fleuve Une Nymphe Éplorée, that begins with:
ur la rive d'un fleuve une nymphe éplorée,
Croisant les bras au ciel avec mille sanglots,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXa XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11111111 10111110110 1001111011 1001111111 1111011001110 10110111011 11111001110 111111101 11110101010 11010111010 11111101101 10011101010 11100111110 10111101000
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, o, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word e at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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