This is an analysis of the poem Les Corbeaux that begins with:
J'ai cru voir sur mon cœur un essaim de corbeaux
En pleine lande intime avec des vols funèbres,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111111110010 11110101110 01101001001 111011011010 10001111110 11011010001 1101101011 1001111110 11111111 1111111110 10110111010 1010101110 1111011111 11110100110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; de is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bres is repeated).
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