This is an analysis of the poem À Un Peintre that begins with:
Quand l'aigle est fatigué de planer dans la nue,
Retraversant l'espace en son vol triomphant,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa bXXc XbdX XXXXXX XXXXXc XXXXXX XbXX eXXXXX XeXXXXXXXd XdXd XXadXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,6,6,6,4,6,10,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101100010111 10001011110 110111011011 11010110111 11110101101 11011110110 01111111100 1101110110011 1011111000 11111111111 110011111111 1111011101 111100101110 100111001 1110111 1110111101100 010110111100 111111110 11101011100 111000111110 11101011 111101110 011001111001 1011111 10110011011 1111001101 10110100 11010011110 0110111110 1110010 110111 110111 0111011 101111 11001101 11010010 11011000 1011100 111010 11101001 1111001 111101101 1110101 0110010 1111110 1010110 111111 11111100 111101100 1111101 11011010 10010111 111110110 11111001 101011 110111 1111111 11111 11001100 10101100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ciel, ses are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, ses are repeated.
The author used the same word va 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 e, nie, es are repeated).
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- summary of À Un Peintre;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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