This is an analysis of the poem La Cage that begins with:
Ma tête est une étrange cage
Où dorment mille oiseaux siffleurs ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa XXXX XXXX bXXb XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111 11011010 1110111 11100010 111110110 1110110 111000 111110110 100111 10010110 10000110 11000111 0100101 11111 110100 1001011 01100011 111110010 101010 11010110 1110111 1111101 11011101 10110010 111111110 110111 1100100 11111100 1110100 0101010 10100110 111001110 10001000 11110100 11111110 01011 110011 11110 1011001 11010011 11100111 111111 111101 11100111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 44
- 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; la, le, les are repeated.
The author used the same word le at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase tirelire connects the lines.
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