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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  • summary of Sur La Rive D'Un Fleuve Une Nymphe Éplorée,;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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