This is an analysis of the poem Désirs (With English Translation) that begins with:
Le rêve pour les uns serait d'avoir des ailes,
De monter dans l'espace en poussant de grands cris,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXX XbXX XXXX cdcd XXXe XfXX dbXX gXgX d a aaaa baaa haih aXcf abaX bXbb daeg giXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101011 010110110011 0110111101000 1011111111100 101010101100 1100101111 1110111101100 1011111010 11110011110 11101111101 1101111110 11010101110 111011111111 1011011101 110010101110 1111111011 111110110100 1110111011 1001001010100 111101111101 100010110011 11001111101 11001110100 1101111010 111011011011 111111011 10110011111 11101101101 1111011110110 101111111 111111111111 11001111010 10010 010 0110101 0110111011 0101110010010 10101101000011 10110010011 11001011110101 10110101000010 10101101010 111110001010 1110010010101 1100100110101 00101000110010 11111111011 1010101010011 01111010011110 1110001101001 1101010010010 110010101001 111011100010 0010011001001011 11010100010001 110011101100 01101110111 1001001010001 111001001011011 11110001001 101001000110111 11010100011 1010010001001001 010011010101 001010011011001 111101001010
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; de, les, en, le, to, like, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, les, to are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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