This is an analysis of the poem Les Mille-Îles that begins with:
Si j'étais la douce hirondelle
Qui vole en chantant dans les airs,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXX XXXX XXXb cXXX XdXX aXac XXaX XXXX XXXe XXXX XcXX XXfX gXXX XXXX ceXX XXXa XXXX XhXX XXXh igXg XXXX XXXX XXXX aXaX XXfX XXXc jeXX fffj aXXX XXhX aeae iXXX gXXX XXXd XbXX XXkX XeXe fXXX XeXX XXXd XXXh XXkX XaXX XXXX XhXX XXbX gXcX XhXX XXXX aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111100 11110111 11010011 0110110 10110100 111110 1111100 1010110 10111100 11110100 101110100 1110100 10110101 0110100 1110110 1101010 111110 1111010 111111 1110111 1000111 11101101 11001111 1001110 11011101 10110110 1001101 01001001 10111010 1101100 111111 11100110 101110 11110100 111111000 11001000 1011110 10101110 110100 10101101 101010 100111 1001110 011011 0110110 11000111 10111110 111010 111010 1110110 1111110 101101 11010100 01001100 1110110 11010 111101 11011111 11111 011011 1010111 11101101 11011100 11010110 110110 011110111 1011110 10001101 111101000 1011010 101101110 1111100 1011100 11011010 110110100 1111110 11011111 01111100 01101011 1101101 1111001 10001010 1011111 1100010 10111010 0111010 1011100 1011010 101111 1101010 10110010 0101010 10100111 11011010 1101111 1101111 011011101 010010 1110100 1101110 11111010 1001010 1110111 1101110 101101000 10001100 10110100 111001101 111011 01111011 111101 1110010 11011111 11101010 1001110 11101101 11100111 101100 1111100 010111 1110110 1101110 10110011 10101010 11111010 101011 101111 10100110 11001110 1001100 111011010 11110 11101100 10101110 1001110 11010110 1001010 11111 1111111 1101111 1111110 11011001 111110 111101010 1110100 01001010 1010101 10110110 1110110 111111 01101101 111100101 1111011 111110 1100010 0010100 11110 01011110 11101110 10011110 111000100 10111010 1110011100 11011011 1100100 11100010 101001 1001110 11110 11010101 11111001 11010110 1111000 110111 11101010 1101101 1111110 11001010 1110010 111000 11111000 1111010 101111100 111110100 111010110 1111011 111011 11101110 11001010 110001 1101101 1100111 11010110 11110010 111010 01101011 11011000 1001011 1111000 1010111 11110011 11000110 1110111 11111100
- Amount of stanzas: 51
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 204
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; me, le, et, de, la, qui, avec, ni are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words j'irais, demander, avec, ce, ni are repeated.
The author used the same words j'irais, ni, o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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