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

Au-dessus de Paris un jour
Combattaient deux grands avions...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXXXXcdXXaXXXXXXXXXXeXXXbXXffXfXebXXXaXbbXXghXiXfjXXXXXXfXXkXXXXXcXalXXXkXfXfXXXbjeXXXXXXXXXXkXXdXfXXXXXXXXXXXbXbXXlXXXXfXXXXXXkXXXXXeXXXXkXXXXXXXXXglklXbXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbiiXkfXXfXhXfXfkXXXXkbXXXXXXkXhXlXXXXfXXXXXXkXieXXiX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 225,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001011 10011100 111111 10101100 101010 111110 111100 111100101 1011100 1011100 1001011 1011101 1010111 11010100 10111 1111010 101111 110000 111100 111110 11011110 1111100 11111101 11001110 100011101 10111100 11111 11111100 111101 111111 10011111 1111110 10100110 1110101 1101111 1111101 11101010 11100100 110111100 110111 11111110 110111111 1110111 11111000 11101001 10010110 11101001 1100100 11111010 1110100 1000110 11100001 1111110 1010110 10110010 1010110 11111001 11011010 1110110 11100010 1110101 111111111 11111 1111110 110111 1111100 11111010 111101010 111101000 11111101 110011111 10110101 1100110 111101 10111100 11000110 1110101 101111100 11101101 101111 1111100 111011100 11110111 11111100 11110111 1111101 010101000 11110111 11101101 11111111 1111111 111111000 1110101 11111100 11110110 1101111 1110010110 110110 1111111010 1011110 10011001 1101110 0111110 10100100 11100100 011011 1111101 111100010 111100 111110 10111100 1110110 11101110 100110 0110100 1111100 11101000 110111111 11111111 10111110 11111110 1111111 10011001 11100100 11001100 10101110 1101100 11100010 11110000 11111101 11001010 1010111 11011100 1110001 1110100 1111101111 111101010 11101110 10111110 1111111 11011101 111010 1111010 1011110 1110100 1111110 111110101 111111001 1111111010 1111111 1111110 1101111111 1011011 1111111111 1001001000 11010011 01110110 11001011 1111011 11111110 10111111 111111100 1100110 11101110 010111111 100111 1100110 11111 110110 11100100 1010101 110111 110111 1101010 11111111110 100111110 1111100 1111111 111110 011110100 110101011 110101 1111111 1111101 1101110 0111101 1101110 11111110 10111001 11001100 111011 1110110 1111100 1111001 1011011 101111 101101110 1111010 1100011 11111010 001111110 1111111 11110010 110101 1100111 1011111 1101100 1101010 1110111 11111000 11101010 110110110 1111001 11001110 111001 1111100 1111111 111011001 1111100 11011101 11110011 10101 1110110 110110100 111011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6751
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1284
  • Amount of lines: 225
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ainsi, les, des, e, temps, plus, me, je, que, le, monte, soit are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ainsi, ni, temps, il, un, la, elle, et are repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

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