This is an analysis of the poem Notre Terre that begins with:
Terre, dont les âpres rivages
Et les promontoires géants...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aaXX XXXX XXXX XbXb XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111100 1110001 100110100 110110 1111010 11010 1101110 1110110 11001 01010100 1010001 1011110 1110100 1110101 1110110 110111 1111101 1101001 111011 1010111 10110 10110 10110 101111 11111 1111011 1011111 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, en are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word terre is repeated.
The author used the same word terre at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase l'or connects the lines.
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- summary of Notre Terre;
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