This is an analysis of the poem Matelots that begins with:
Vos marins de quinquets à l’Opéra… comique,
Sous un frac en bleu-ciel jurent « Mille sabords ! »...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,2,4,4,8,5,11,4,3,1,4,12,3,4,17,15,6,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101010 11111110110 111101010010 0101101111 011011111110 1001011010 111101111111 1100111100 100111101 11111111 1111011011111 11111111110 111110111101 11010111101 11011110110 1111011110 1010111111010 11011111110 1111101111111 111010100 11011011001 011110111110 11110010110 1101101101000 11101011110 1001111111 1111101111111 1101111101 11110111110 01101101101 11110111111 111111110111 11011110001 101110110101 11111111010 1111100110 11110111011 11011111100 1100111111 01111011 111101111100 01110111010 101110111010 1111111111 11011111010 11001010101 11011110111 1111001111 1111111101 0101011111 10111001110 111111111 111011111101 110110111110 101111111 1101111011 10011101010 11111011110 1110111101 11101101 11111101 1111110110 1101111011 1111111111 101100110111 11101110111 1111010111 11101111110110 11101010110 010101111100 11111010111 110010 100111 01110011010 11001001010 110101011101 111111110100 111100101010 100010110100 110110 111111110111 11111111011 110111111 101110011110 01101101100 111111110101 1110100111 01110101111 01010111001 1111111010111111 101111010011 111011 1110 111001111011 1101010011 100110111010 110010101 11101110100 1001111101000 1111011011000 1111001110 11011111010 111100011100 111111001000 101111011011 11111111110 0111111110 111110100 1111111110 11001110111 11111101 010110111011 110 11011111 01111011110 11111111 11111010011 101110101100 0101111 101
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 124
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, les, de, la, et, ils, un, leur, en, d, s, c, est, le, vous, plus, n, mer are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words comme, ils, a are repeated.
The author used the same word eux 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 es, e, re, s are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase matelots connects the lines.
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- summary of Matelots;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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