Il Tarde Au Pèlerin D'Achever Son Voyage… [xci À C] by Pierre Matthieu: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Il Tarde Au Pèlerin D'Achever Son Voyage… [xci À C] that begins with:

Il tarde au Pèlerin d’achever son voyage,
Le Marinier voudroit n’être plus sur les eaux :...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXX X XXcX X XbcX X XXXd X XXXX X XXXX X aXaX X XXXX X XXXX c XdcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110100110 01001011111 1101110110 11100011011 1 11111001011 111100111011 111111010011 01111011001 1 1111110101111 11011001111 1111111011 11101110010 1 111101111 111110111111 111111111111 110101110001 1 111101100100 110110010 111110111100 11110110010 1 11010111100 1111011111100 111100110111 110010111101 1 1110111010110 010111110010 1101001111 11110101011 1 0110111011 0101110110 1101010111110 1100111001 1 11110101110 1100011111010 1111111110 11101111111 1 11011101011 11011011010 111111111111 11011110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, le, un, d, la are repeated.

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