This is an analysis of the poem Je La Revois, Après Vingt Ans, L'Île Où Décembre that begins with:
Je la revois, après vingt ans, l'île où Décembre
Me jeta, pâle naufragé....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX XXXa bXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XbXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 11110111111 110110 11111101111 111111 011110101111 10111100 0111101111111110 111110111 11101111101 111101110 11010010011110 1111111111 1011111110111 1110110 1111101111111 10100 011111001110 1101100 11011110110 111111 111101100111 1011010 11110110010 11101011 1101111110 1010101 1011111100100 11101111 0111100111100 101111110 1111110010100 1110001 111111100110 1110010 1111101110 111110110 1111110111 111101 11101111001 011011 1111110111 11111110 111011110 11100100 10111011001110 11101111 11100101110 11010 1011111011 11101001 1011110111111 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, m, les, et, de, c', mes, le, tait are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
The author used the same word c' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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