This is an analysis of the poem Extase (Ecstasy) that begins with:
J'étais seul près des flots, par une nuit d'étoiles.
Pas un nuage aux cieux, sur les mers pas de voiles....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXX XaXXXX X bbcddc ddXbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,1,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111110 11111111101 1110111011 11111111110 101000111010 11111101 111011100 01111101100 101100110001 111111111011 1011001011 10100101 100 11010101010101 11011001110101 010100011111001 10101010110101 10110100011101 01000101010001 101010100110001 0100110010111 011111011100101 101111110010101 01111101010111 1111010010110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; et, les, and, in, of are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines te is repeated).
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- summary of Extase (Ecstasy);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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