This is an analysis of the poem Le Rossignol Et Le Paon that begins with:

L'aimable et tendre Philomèle,
Voyant commencer les beaux jours,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaabXbXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110 10100111 10011 11101110 01110100 11100110 10011101 1100110 1111100 1011110 11111111 01010110 0111111 101110 01110111 1111111111 101010 10111111111 11111111 11101111 111110100 1001011 11101100 11011110 110111 01110111110 101000111 11010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 899
  • Average number of words per stanza: 167
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; et, je, vous are repeated.

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  • summary of Le Rossignol Et Le Paon;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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