This is an analysis of the poem Pour Faire Le Portrait D'Un Oiseau that begins with:

Peindre d'abord une cage
avec une porte ouverte ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXbcXXXXXdXeXXXXXXXXecffXaXXXXXXgXdbXXgXXXXXXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011 101110 110 11010 11010 1101 1110 110 101011111 1110 111 1111 1110101 1110 110 1010011 111101101010 0101110 11111100 10 1010110110 1101110010010 101001 10110001 11001 101 010011010 1011010111 111011 101001110010 1 100111110 1101011101011010 11001001 11001110110 110 1100110111001 110001 1011101111001 111011011110 1101111 1101 110010110 111111 1111010 1011001100 111010 111011111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1433
  • Average number of words per stanza: 254
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; quelque, chose, un, dans, la, de, et, signe, vous are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words quelque, dans, sans, attendre, et are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines arrive is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases attendre, signe connect the lines.

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  • summary of Pour Faire Le Portrait D'Un Oiseau;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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