This is an analysis of the poem Les Corneilles that begins with:
Le plumage lustré de satins et de moires,
Les corneilles, oiseaux placides et dolents, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101010 110010100110 101110111011 1000101110010 1111101110 101111111 111101110 10101110100 1101111101101 11110111110 110011111111 11011110011 111111101100 1000011101 111111100 11000111011 01010101010 110010100110 101110111011 1000101110010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et is repeated.
The author used the same word une 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 is repeated).
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- summary of Les Corneilles;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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