This is an analysis of the poem À Henry W. Longfellow that begins with:
Un soir, tu t'envolas comme l'oiseau de mer
Dont le coup d'aile altier nargue le gouffre amer :...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXX XXXXXb XXXXXX XXaXXX XXXXXX ccXaXX bXXXXX XXXXXX XXXcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110011001 101110010110 11101110 1001111100 1011100011100 1111000 11111101111 10101001001 10110100 1111010010 1100101110 1010100 1100111110 11111111110110 1001110 11110100010 0101010010 1010100 1101101110 110010110010 10101111 11011111010 11110110011 1111001 1111110110 11010111100 0101111 1011001100 11010010100 11000111 1111110101 11111111001 11100010 0101001111 1111010111010 101110 100111111 0111010111 1010110 1001101111 11011011010 011100 11001111010 101010111100 1111010 1110101111 11111111010 11101 1001101110 11111110 101111000 111010111111 11111010 01110100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, dans, des are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word dans is repeated.
The author used the same word tu at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines s is repeated).
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