This is an analysis of the poem L'Albatros (The Albatross) that begins with:
Souvent, pour s'amuser, les hommes d'équipage
Prennent des albatros, vastes oiseaux des mers,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXX XbXX XXac D eafg hbaa aife gjak X D afaf aaaa haha alal m D elel dbdb hlhl baba j a jaja fafa lele baba h D eaXd hbaX hijc acmk Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011001110 101100101011 110100100010 01010111010 111111110 111010100110 101000110110 111001011 110011101111 10101110011011 1101110111 1111010110 0101101111 11111111010 1010110111 110110010 0101 100010101001 110101111 110001001 1011001101 101110101 1110011001 0100011111 101011 11100111110 110001110110 111001001011 010110010111 010010010111 110010111010 111101010111 0101011010 010110100 0101 0111010101 1011010001 0100010011 11010100011 1111011101 1101110101 110011111 1101111101 1100110111 0101000101 1001100101 1101010111 0101011001 0101010101 1101010101 0110010101 0101110 0101 0101010101001 101110101011011 10011101000101 10011100100101 1101110001011 101000101001 1100100010111 0111110101101 11001100101111 1101011101001 11110010101001 0101001001101 01001110100001 01001010101011 111111010101 110110010001 0101110 1010 10110111001 1101010101 1111010101 1011011101 1111010101 1101101100 1011111111 0101010101 111001111 1101110001 1101000101 1100110111 1011110111 1101110111 1111010101 1011011101 0101110 0101 100010101001 111100101010 100100010110 01111101 101110101 11100110101 10011111 111010 011001110111 1101111001100110 111001001010 010101001010 0100101001 100101101010 11110101010 0101101010 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 34
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 114
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, of, they, how, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word one is repeated.
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- summary of L'Albatros (The Albatross);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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