This is an analysis of the poem Ce Que Disent Les Hirondelles that begins with:
Déjà plus d'une feuille sèche
Parsème les gazons jaunis ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 111010 111011011 1111110 11101111 0101101 0101110 1010111 111101110 11000101 10110000 10101001 101001100 11100101 11111110 11110110 1111111111 110010 1111110 011010101 1111011 0111011 11010111 1011101 111111100 1110110 1101101 111101101 11110110 11011010 111011011 11101111 11110110 1011100 1101111 110011101 110111101 1110011 11010001 101110111 110110011 11111101 1110001 111010111 10110100 1110111 1111110 101110101 101011001 10111010 1101111 1011101 101110010 1110111 101011000 10101111 11101110010 10101110 110111110 1101001 111111 1101010 110111010 10111101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; le, et, la, des, ailes are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word le is repeated.
The author used the same words celle, la at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ' connects the lines.
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