This is an analysis of the poem La Pierre Du Coq that begins with:

Oyseau qui de garde fidelle
Dessillé fais la sentinelle...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XabXXb XXcXaX XXXXaX XXXddX XXXXXX XXXXXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010110 1011100 1010011 101110 110110 1010111 10111 100011 1011001 1110111 101111100 111110101 101101100 01110110 1111011 11111010 10011101 11010110 10110100 11101000 1100110 0101111 0101101 11101100 11111111 01011110 0110110100 111011 11010011 111010 1011110 11110110 101101010 010111111 1101101 10101010 111110 0111110 01101100 1010110 10011110 11111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, la, ou are repeated.

    The author used the same word oyseau at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).

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  • summary of La Pierre Du Coq;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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