This is an analysis of the poem Canaris that begins with:
Lorsqu'un vaisseau vaincu dérive en pleine mer ;
Que ses voiles carrées...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX bXcX XXXX XXdX XXXX XXXX XXdX aXaX XcXX XcXc XXXX XXaX XXXX aXaX XcXX XXXX bXXX XXcX XXXX dXdX XadX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101111 11110 100111111001 10010 101111110101 101100 11101011001 111000 10101001101 110101 10111010101110 01111 101111110111 1111011 1110110111 11011 1010110101110 1101 1101011010 111 101110111100 11100 111101101010 1011 101110110110 111101 1111011010 11111 111111111111 101111 1101011111 10110 111010111010 1101110 111110110100 1101100 11110011010 11111101 1101110110 11011 1100111011 1110100 1010111010 110100 010001011011 111111 11110001111 111101 10111110100 1110100 11101101110 1101100 101101111111 111011 111001111011 11101 10111000110 011101 101011111 1101 1001111011 110111 1111011110 1111 1111011111110 101100 1110011011 111111 100101011110 110100 111010110111 1111 110111111110 101100 110011100111 010010 11011111101 101100 110110110011 110100 110010101100 110001 1010101111 111011 101100111010 11110 111010111100 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, et, tour, les, aux are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word que is repeated.
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- summary of Canaris;
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