This is an analysis of the poem Le Cap Trinité that begins with:

C'est un bloc écrasant dont la crête surplombe
Au-dessus des flots noirs, et dont le front puissant...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX 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: 1111011110 110111110110 01000111110 1011101011 11011010 101100001111 110111111110 10110011101 101011110 01101101011 1100100110 1110110100 10011111100 1011001100
  • 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, la, le are repeated.

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  • summary of Le Cap Trinité;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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