This is an analysis of the poem Flots Des Mers that begins with:

Flots qui portiez la vie au seuil obscur des temps,
Qui la roulez toujours en embryons flottants ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXbXbXXXaaXXXcXXXXXXXXXXXXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011111011 11101011010 101110010010 10010011110 11111110111 111111100111 101100110010 1000111110000 1101111010 110100111110 110011111011 111010111110 11111111110 110111010110 10001110111 111100011101 111010110100 11111011110 111010101110 1100001101100 1010010110101 10001011110 011110110111 11101011011 110100111110 100011111010 1101101101 10101011 11111101101 1101111111100 11110111011 110001110010 110110101100 111101110 1101001101101 1101101111010 1000101010 1000100110 110010111100 1001111110 1101001011000 110110111010 11111011100 111101011010111 010110110100 111000111110 110110101111 111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2270
  • Average number of words per stanza: 409
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; vous, vos, qui are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word vous is repeated.

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

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  • summary of Flots Des Mers;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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