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

Sous des massifs touffus, au fond désert du parc,
La colonnade antique arrondissant son arc,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXXXXXccXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101011101 110101100011 111111101111 111101110111 10110111100 11011110110 01110111011 0111011011 1011111110 110101111 111101010010 110110101100 11100101101 010110101100 1101101110 1101001010 10011111010 110100111111 10101010110 11110001100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 951
  • Average number of words per stanza: 166
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; un is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines moire, e are repeated).

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

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

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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