This is an analysis of the poem À Pamphile Le May that begins with:

Ami, sur le flot noir ou la vague opaline,
Naïfs fervents du Rêve ou jouets du Destin,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXX 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: 101011111101 1100111010 110110111100 1011111111 110111100110 10110010011 11001010110 11010110110 111010101 1110101011 1111010110 11011111101 1011100111101 0110011010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sombre, toile are repeated).

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  • summary of À Pamphile Le May;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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