This is an analysis of the poem Éclaircie that begins with:

L'océan resplendit sous sa vaste nuée.
L'onde, de son combat sans fin exténuée,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXXXXXXXbXXXXbbXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101001111 10110111 100110111100 1011110110 11010111111111 10010110111 11011111010 1110101111 1010011111 11011110110 10111111111 1111010101 1100111 111111111 0111011001 110111101011 1001111001 111111111 10011110001 001101001010 01101001110 101000011010 0101111010101 11000110110 11101111101 01100111011 111100111 1111111110 1001111011 10111101 11001110110 111011010 1011011110 11111111010 110110111010 011111011110 111111111110 101111010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1806
  • Average number of words per stanza: 345
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; le, ses, la, du are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, vres, s, re are repeated).

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  • summary of Éclaircie;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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