This is an analysis of the poem Le Cygne that begins with:
Sans bruit, sous le miroir des lacs profonds et calmes,
Le cygne chasse l'onde avec ses larges palmes,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbXXXXXXXXXcddXbXXccaXXXXXXdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101110110 010111011010 110100110110 011010110101 11111110101 111101010110 11111110110 010110111 0110111010 10111111110 1011111101 11011011001 10101011100 11110110001 1110111101 1111111010 10101111101 11011011 11111110110 1010001010 110111101001 111010011110 11110111111001 011110111010 11001011111 101111111111 111001111011 1111011011 1010111110111 1101111101 1111010110 11111101100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1509
- Average number of words per stanza: 284
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; le, et, de, que are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word le is repeated.
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- summary of Le Cygne;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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