This is an analysis of the poem Quam Pulchra Es, Amica! that begins with:
Comme l’ombre d’un vol d’oiseau
Sur la neige d’une colline,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa XbXX X XXXX XXXX cXXX X XXdX XXbe XfXX X XXfX XXXX XXbX g eXXX XXXX dXXX g XXbb bXXX XXXX X XXXX XXXX XcXc X XXXc bXbb XXeX X XXaX fXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 111110 1111101 1011010 10110 01111110 10111110 11001111 1011101 1111110 1111110 1010111 1 11111110 101110 1110110 110110100 1111111 11010101 10111110 01101010 1110011 1110110 110110 101110 1 110111010 01011100 11111111 1010101 1011110 111010 10110011 11111011 1110110 1110111 10110010 011111 1 0111101 1101011 1101011 111011 11011100 1011110 10101110 111110 1111001 1111011 111001 0101011 1 1101001 1100110 1111111 1101001 11111010 0111110 1011100 1111111 1111011 1111010 10101110 1110011 1 1110100 101110 111101 111111 10110101 0100110 1001110 1111111 11110110 100110110 111001 1110010 1 1011100 111011110 10111011 11111010 10111 1101001 11001001 11011110 111110 1111111 111100 1110111 1 10110111 10111100 10111010 11010101 10100110 1101101 110010 1111111 01110100 1100001 1111111 1111011 1 10111000 1110011 11110011 111101 010111 11111010 111101 101100110 110101110 101110110 10100110 11110110
- Amount of stanzas: 35
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 116
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; d, la, des, leur are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sur, tant, ou, l are repeated.
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