This is an analysis of the poem A L’hirondelle that begins with:
Fille de Pandion, ô jeune Athénienne,
La cigale est ta proie, hirondelle inhumaine,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010110 1100111100100 11011011011 11011110110 1111110011 1101111010 01001110100 11101011101 1011101111 01111011001 11111110110 11101110110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 548
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of A L’hirondelle;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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