This is an analysis of the poem Pendant La Tempête that begins with:
La barque est petite et la mer immense ;
La vague nous jette au ciel en courroux, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX abab XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111101 111111110 01111111 101110110 011111101 111111110 11110111 10110111 100101101 111101101 10011111 1101101011 1110011110 11111010 111010110 111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; la is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word la is repeated.
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