This is an analysis of the poem Sur La Tombe De Cadieux that begins with:
Sur un îlot désert de l'Ottawa sauvage,
Le voyageur remarque, à deux pas du rivage,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaaXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010010 01001011010 111111010 111001010110 111111111 111111 111010101 10111011011 110111010 1111010111 110110101100 1101001010010 1101011001010 1111111010110 1111100111 111001100110 1001101001010 11111111100110 111111111101 1111101110 1 1111111110101 1100110110111 1011110101 1110110101010 10111011100 111011110110 11110111011 111010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 471
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; un, de, combien, tes, le are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word un is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines vagues, re are repeated).
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- summary of Sur La Tombe De Cadieux;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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