This is an analysis of the poem A Des Oiseaux Envolés that begins with:

Enfants ! - Oh ! revenez ! Tout à l'heure, imprudent,
Je vous ai de ma chambre exilés en grondant, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbXXXXXaXXXXXXcc c XXXXXXXXdXXe XXXXfXXaXaXXgXXXXXXXXXXXX hXhhXaXijXXXXc XXXaXXXXXXXXjX XgffXXbXXXXX kkXXXcXXXXXbXjXXXiXb XXXXXaXXaXXXXdXXXX XfXXeXXXhhXXXbXX XXXhXXbbXXXaXkaa XXXhXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,1,12,25,14,14,12,20,18,16,16,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110011010 111101110110 1111001100 1100111101110 1111111010 110101111 11101111010 100111110100 110110110100 11011111110 110110110110 1011101011 11110111100 10111111100 1111101100 110110100100 110111111 110010111001 1111111011 1111011001 11111111011 11011111100 11110111 1110011010 011000111100 1110110011 1111101111 11001110001 11010110100 1110111111110 111111111101 11011110110 111111111111 10100111001 11101111011 111011111111 1011001011 1111111110 1101111111 101110111110 1101010110 01101101010 11011111100 01101011010 111101110 1101111111 11111011110 110111110 11111111101 11011101010 110010101100 11011111011 11111111010 100110111010 111111011110 1110110111101 111011111011 01110111101 11110101111 111001111001 111111111 11011000111 01101110101 0101101001110 1110101101001 1011110 111000110111 11111100111 110011110 1110101110111 110110110111 10111110110 11100111010 111010111101 1101001111 11011111001 11001001110 01111111011 111110111110 110011010010 11011110101 11101110011 011110101011 1011111111 10010111100 110010101010 111101110 11010111111 111011111100 1010110101110 1111101001 11111110100 10010110010 11100111100 0111111011010 1011011000 110101111010 11110011010 111010110110 1101111111 10110111010 1111011111 110010111111 10101011110 010110111000 1101111110 1111101110110 10101011101 10111001010 110110111101 111110111 011111111 1101011101 11111110110 11111001100 111011110110 111111111010 111100111100 1010111111110 1011101110110 1101111011 11100110111 111010111100 11011110010 111100111001 1101110110110 110110111111 11100110100 1111110111 1110011001 111100111110111 10111101101 111011110010 111101110100 111111110011 11101110101 1110111011 11110110 10111101101 111011010 111101101110111 011101100011 1101011010 101111111 111001111111 11000111100 101011100010 111001111011 111110111011 1110101110101 110011111 1111011110 11110111000 111111110 10111101110 101111011100 1101101111101 111110111 101111001 11101110 101010111111 01111111 111000101010 10101001101 1111011110 1110111001 10011100111 11111011111111 10110011101 1110011101 111011111 011111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 702
  • Average number of words per stanza: 126
  • Amount of lines: 172
  • 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:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; quel, pour, e, de, vous, le, qui, les, un, la, nous, mais, mes, et, dont, pas are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words quel, dans, ce, tant, quand, enfants are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, miens, lire, vres, es, chine, s, res, pas are repeated).

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