This is an analysis of the poem La Chanson De L'Air that begins with:
A l'Air, le dieu puissant qui soulève les ondes
Et fouette les hivers,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX Xa XX XX XX XX aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011011110 11110 01011111110 110011 10101111110 10110 11011011010 10011 11011100111000 110100 1111001011110 010110 11101111111 100110 10111110 110110 11100111100 110111 101011101100 100100 111011101100 11111 10001111110 1111 110110110100 11110 101111111 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 72
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, le, des, comme are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of La Chanson De L'Air;
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