This is an analysis of the poem Plus De Chants that begins with:

Enfant d'un nid loin du soleil éclos,
Tombée un jour du faîte des collines,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXaXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX baXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110011 111011100 101111000 111111111 1110110110 1111111110 110011101 10101110111 11111010 111111010 011010111 11111101 100110111 11101011 01110010 11011101 10011110111 101010011 10101011 111110111 10111011 111011111 110001111 11111110 11111100011 11010111011 1111010011 1110111110 111010110110 1010111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; le, de are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ch, te, tre are repeated).

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  • summary of Plus De Chants;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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