This is an analysis of the poem Les Oiseaux that begins with:
Montez, montez, oiseaux, à la fange rebelles,
Du poids fatal les seuls vainqueurs !...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXXX XXXXX XXaX XXXXX XXaXX XXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,4,5,5,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011011100 01101110 01011111111 111011101111 111010101110 101101111 111110110010 1111111100 11011001101 101110010110 111011101101 101111110001 1111001101010 111101111110 10101011100 01101110 0101110111 11011101111 110111101100 11011101110 11110111100 111001111110 111001111010 11101110100 111011011110 101100011001 111100101010 101110111011 10101011100 01101110 0111001111 111011101111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, vous are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word vous is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word s at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Les Oiseaux;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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