This is an analysis of the poem La Jeune Tarentine that begins with:
Pleurez, doux alcyons! ô vous, oiseaux sacrés,
Oiseaux chers à Thétis, doux alcyons, pleurez!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XXXXXXaXXaXX XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,12,12,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101101 101111010 1011011100 110110110100 11011011100 101100110110 1110100111 10110111 11111011101 1111101011 11111100110 0110110111 1001111100 11111011111 101111111100 1110111101 11111101110 11010110010 111011110 11101100100 010110111100 111011100 101111001100 1110111101100 101011110111 11100110 1111011110 11110111 11001111101 11011111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 30
- 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; les, elle, des, tu are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, elle are repeated.
The author used the same word elle at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, s are repeated).
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- summary of La Jeune Tarentine;
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