This is an analysis of the poem La Mer that begins with:
Loin des grands rochers noirs que baise la marée,
La mer calme, la mer au murmure endormeur, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX XXXX XXaX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011111 11111110100 111111101 1110101101111 1111111110 1100110110 100110111010 1010110111 111011111010 111010110 111100111101 111010110100 111101110 1001100110 11101111 10110110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; la, mer are repeated.
The author used the same word la at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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