This is an analysis of the poem Le « Mayflower ». À Miss Mary Garfield. that begins with:

Voyez-vous ce vaisseau qui plonge dans la lame ?
On lit un nom de fleur à sa poupe sculpté ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaX XXXa XXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 10111011111 111101111 10101111111 1010001110 1101011110 10010111101 1111110110100 10110101010 11111110 11101110110 110010101100 1101011111 11011011101 11100111101 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • 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; de is repeated.

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