This is an analysis of the poem Au Bord De La Mer that begins with:

Vois, ce spectacle est beau. - Ce paysage immense
Qui toujours devant nous finit et recommence ; ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXbbbXbXcXXXXXXXaXXXXXXccdX eXXfXXXXXXXXeXXXfXXXXdXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXg XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX gXgX bXXX XcXc XXXX Xdbd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,38,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110001111001 110101101100 111111111011 11111011110 10110111110 11111110111 101101101111 111001110101 11111110 1101111011 1011101010 111011111101 111111111011 111111011 1011110011 11011110101 01101011101 110111100111 11110111010 1011110111 110110111011 101111111 11111110110 11011110100 111111100100 1010100101000 111110101010 10111111010 10101100101 10101010111 11111111011 11111111110 11011110110 11010010100 11000110110 110101111 11010011110 1111111110010 10001010100 01011011110 100101001 1100111011 1110101111 110111111101 11000011010 11111011110 01111110110 1101111100 11111101100 1010101101000 101011110100 11010011101 11100111101 101111111101 110110100010 01000111010 1101111011 11011111110 110110111001 11101011110111 1111010110 111011100 10100101010 11101111110 11011110110100 1011101101110 10100100011000 100011010101 101110111010110 111110111110 1111011111 101110111111 1111010011 1111001110100 1011111111 1010111111 11011111110 10111011010 111111111011 1010110111 11110110 1111101101110 1111111110 1110011111 11110011111 1111010111 1010111111 1101111111 111111111110 110110101010 11111111110 1111101101111 11111110110 11101011110 11111101111100 11011111100 111110111 111010111 1101111001111 1101111111 111110101010 1101110111 111010010110 111111101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 463
  • Average number of words per stanza: 84
  • Amount of lines: 104
  • 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:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ce, ces, de, et, les, sans, quand, est, ton, sous are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ces, cet, les, o, quand, ce are repeated.

    The author used the same word quand 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, robe, s, ve are repeated).

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