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

L'océan me disait : Ô poëte, homme juste,
J'ai parfois comme toi cette surprise auguste ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbbXXaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110111 1101110110 101011110110 1111101110 111011011 11110101 11111110111 1111111111 1111000110011 11011011 11101101010 101111011110 11101101111 1111011001 1110110101 11001101100 11010101110 11011011111110 1111011110111 11101010101 11101111111 1111101011110 011101011 01111111110 011010011001 1010100100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1234
  • Average number of words per stanza: 226
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • 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; les, e, et, de, ce are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words je, des, de are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).

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

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