This is an analysis of the poem La Basse-Cour that begins with:
Dans une basse-cour vivait en république
Une foule d'oiseaux de plumages divers....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaX aXXXXXXXX XXa XXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXbXXXcXXXXX bXXXXXXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,9,3,26,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110110 1110010010 100110110100 11101111110110 11001111110 10111100 110101110100 11011110111 10100110 01011110101110 11010011011 11010111 10110011011 11110111 111010111011 1011101111011 1101011110 100111111 11110100 10111111010 1100111010 1101011111111 1110110010 00111111 110111010 111010 111111010 110011110110 011101111011 011011101110 1110111010 11101110 10101011110110 0110101110 11011010110 111110111011 1011010110 10111110010 11001010 01110011110 01110111 111111111001 1110111 01100011001 11100111 11010011100 1100110110110 11011101 011011001 111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 424
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, quel, plus, et, de, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word quel is repeated.
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