This is an analysis of the poem La Colombe that begins with:
Quand chassés, sans retour, des temples vénérables,
Tordus au vent de feu qui soufflait du Thabor,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa bXXX cXcX XXXX XdXa eXXX XXfX XXXX XXfd XXXb gaXe XXaX XXXX XXXX XeXa XXXX XXXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011010 101101110010 1110011100 11101010111 1011101111 10111010011 111101110 10111101011 1111110011 10111111110 11001111110 1101111100 11110101011000 10111010010 1100111101000 111010101110 1110101010100 10111110110 110111111 1101010111 01101110111 1111011110 101011110110 11001011111 11000111100 100101111 1110110111 110011111 10101010111 110011111010 11111010111 1111110010 111101101110 1100010111110 101110010100 1110111010 10111001101110 11110110110 111101101100 11111111 11011111010 10111110011 10101011010 11001011111 11010011111 1101110101 11010111001 1101011101 1011010011 11111111100 10110010111 11010101110 11110111111 111001110101 110101101011 1100010111 1111101011100 111010101 1101111011110 111100101011 1100101110 1100110111 11111011101111 111011110011 110101011111 1111101100 110111101010 0111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; un, la, des, le are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words un, tes are repeated.
The author used the same word il at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of La Colombe;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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