This is an analysis of the poem Le Cor that begins with:

J'aime le son du Cor, le soir, au fond des bois,
Soit qu'il chante les pleurs de la biche aux abois,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXb cXXX XXdX XXXX XXbb ccee X Xdcc XXXX XXXX XXXb X XXXX cXXX XXXX XXXX XcXX XXXX XXXXXXXX X XXXc XXXcXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,1,4,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101011111 110111011110 11001011110 11010110111 1011111010 11001011101 111101011100 1111110001 110010101 1011001010 01110110100 10101010110 1111011110 1010101101010 111011011101010 11101110011 101100110111 01110110011 0111010010111 10010011011 110101101110 1101010110010 11011011101 1101110101 11100100111 0111110101101 1001001111 1011011110 1 11111110101 1111011111010 101111011011 10111011101 11111111110 1101111111111 1001101110 111011100100 1111111111 101111111010 110110100101 101111111011 10110111110 110011101011 1011001111 111111110 1 100100101111 10010111110101 01001111100 01110111011 11000010101 100110110010 0110101111 010111011 101011110110 101000111100 11010010100 1010101101000 11110111001 100111111101 101110101111 1101111110010 11110111010 101100011001 10011110110 01010111000 1001110111110 10011011110 10101111 11110111011 11001011110 011111111011 1111001101011 011111011110 101101101110 10110111110 10100100101 111111110010 1 10111110110 1110111100 11100111110 01001011001 1011111101010 111100111100 11111111 11111111101 111100110011 1101010111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 89
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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, du, de, et, au, il, deux are repeated.

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

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

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

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