This is an analysis of the poem Le Lac De Beauport that begins with:
O frais miroir ! Sa nappe humide se découpe
Dans les sables un lit paisible au creux d'un val ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaX aXXa XXa 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: 11101110111 111011101111 1100101110110 11111010111 111110101010 01101101111 1101111110 1011111010 101010110101 11011101011 11010011001 111111011 101001010110 01110110100
- 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; ce is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ce is repeated.
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