This is an analysis of the poem Tristesse En Mer that begins with:

Les mouettes volent et jouent ;
Et les blancs coursiers de la mer,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XAXX XaXa XXbX XXXX XXXX XcXX cXXX XXXX XXXX XXXc XXXX XXXb XXXX XAXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011 11110011 1111010 111011 011111 10110001 10111011 1011011 1110110 11111010 00110101 111101011 1110111 10110110 010111 01011110 1111111 1011100 1101 11101110 10101010 101010 0110100 11111010 01110010 11001010 11001000 1111001 01110011 0111001 111110110 111110 11111 10101001 11101110 11001110 1011010 110011 1011110 111111111 11100 110111 110100010 11100111 111111 101101 111110 111101 110111 110110 11101110 10111011 110111 11110011 1111010 111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, du, le, me are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word le is repeated.

    The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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