This is an analysis of the poem Jolliet that begins with:
Le grand fleuve dormait couché dans la savane.
Dans les lointains brumeux passaient en caravane...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXa XXXXbX XXXXXc XXXXXd XXXXXX XXeXXXX XXXXXe XXXffX XXXXXX XXXXXe XXXXfXX XXXaXb aXXddX XXeXXX XfXXXX XagXXXX XXcXXX XXXhhX XXXXgX XXXXXX X XfXXXX XXXXXX dXXcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,7,6,6,6,6,7,6,6,6,6,7,6,6,6,6,1,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111011110 111010101100 01001011010 1111001100 0110110100 11000010 110111111100 1110111100100 1110110010 0110001010 1100101011 1101011 01101101110 1101101111010 11010011011 1101001100010 111110110110 1010111 10011110110 10110101010 111001101100 0110111010 1110010110 10110010 101010110 0111011100 110111010 100110111010 1101011101 101100 10110101111 101110110111 011110111101 1101011100 101001110 11000111 1 1010110010 110101111100 101111011100 11010110011 111011001 11001111 01011110111 00110010100 1111111001 1010010101 110110110101 101100 1111111111 10101110011 10110111100 1011111110 011111011 1011110 111011100100 1011100110100 11101010110 1110111101 10010110111 10110011 11010101011 1101101110011 1100111110 100111010 101011010101 11001010 1 110100100 1111100110 1111001111010 11111101111 110001101010 10111001 111101111001 0100101011000 1101111100 1101101110 01010111100 11110 1011101101 1010111001 11011010111111 1011011010 01001011110 10110010 11101111110 100010010101 1101010111 10010010100 1101101110 10110010 1100101101100 10110100110 11110101011 11011111001 11010110110 10011010 1 10101100100 11011011111 1010110111 11011111101 110110111 1010001010 1101110111 1100100111 11110101000 10110111011 111011101 0110110 011101111011 11101011001 11001011110 1011010110 1011001111 11110010 10111110110 11110111110 1101100110 01010010011 1010101111 100111 1 1111010010 10111011101 110111010 101001110111 1100100111 11100100 11001100100 111101101100 11101110100 11101100110 11100100100 101000 110111100 1100111010 110000011110 11111110111 111100110 11111010
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 146
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; de, dans, sur, les, le, fier, du, des, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words fier, quel, le are repeated.
The author used the same words et, des at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, e, vre, ves, le, rive, tes, nie are repeated).
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- summary of Jolliet;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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