This is an analysis of the poem Les Corbeaux that begins with:
Les noirs corbeaux au noir plumage,
Que chassa le vent automnal, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXab XXXX XbXb XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110 11001100 10001110 1010110 110110100 10011010 11111100 10001110 1100111 11000110 11111111 10011100 11110011 10011101 11111001 010110 11010110 111111 1111110 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les is repeated.
The author used the same word les at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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