This is an analysis of the poem Les Oiseaux Blancs that begins with:

Salut, petits oiseaux, qui volez sur nos têtes,
Et de l'aile, en passant, effleurez les frimas; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXA XXXb XXXX XXXX XcXX XXXX XbaX XaXX XXXX bXXc XXXA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010110111 101110100110 11100111110 101110100111 11011011100 111011111 10011100110 11111011101 10011111110 01101101110 110010111101 1100100110011 1111001010 1101011011 011000111 10111110011 101010111 1111100101110 11011111011 10110011111 110110011001 110111010011 111011011 11110010100 11111111100 11110100101 11011010011 111111101100 110111111 0100111011 11011110111 01010011011 10111011111 1111101011 11101011011 1111111101110 11001010011 10110110010 11001011110 11111100101 011010110111 101110100110 11100111110 101110100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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, de, ils are repeated.

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  • summary of Les Oiseaux Blancs;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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