This is an analysis of the poem Le Marinier Qui Va De Naufrage En Naufrage… [lxxxi À Xc] that begins with:

Le Marinier qui va de naufrage en naufrage,
Qui comme le plongeon vit en l’eau nuit et jour,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa X XXXa X bcXc X bXXX X XXde X XXXX X XXXX X XeXe X dXdX X XfXf
  • 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: 010011010110 11010111111 10011101010 11100111011 1 1111101111 11111011011 110110111010 11111011111 1 110110100110 1111011010 101110111110 1110110110 1 110110110110 1111011110 0101001110100 111011111 1 11011111111 11111111 10111111111 10111111010 1 111001111111 11111111101 100111111111 1101010111110 1 1101100011110 1111100111100 01111111101100 1101111110100 1 110101011011 10101111 1011111111 10100011011 1 101111011 111010110 111111010 101011110011 1 111010110 111100100101 11011101001 111110111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, l, des, ta, la, sans are repeated.

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  • central theme;
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