This is an analysis of the poem Au Vieux Roscoff that begins with:

Trou de flibustiers, vieux nid
À corsaires ! – dans la tourmente,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXXXX XXXXXXXbbX XXXX XXaXXa XXXX cXXXXddc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,10,4,6,4,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010011 1001110 1111010 1111011 111111 111111 11101110 11110111 10101111 11010111 11111 11011100 1110100 101011 111100 111110011 1110110 1111001 01011111 111101110 11110110 11111110 1010101 11101000 11011100 1011110 11101111 111110100 11011110 11110001 11110100 11110 1001111 11110 11111001 11010111 1111010 11111001 1111110 1101101 10111 0111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; la, les, de, noms are repeated.

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

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).

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  • summary of Au Vieux Roscoff;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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