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

Cela forme deux rangs de massifs promontoires,
Gigantesque crevasse ouverte, aux premiers jours,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX aaX
  • 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: 101110101000 10010101011 111001101010 111100101110 110111111 010010111010 10011010100 11010101 11010110100 10010011110 1101010110 111111011101 1101111010111 1101001100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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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  • summary of Le Saguenay;
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  • history of its creation;
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