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

Vie ! ô bonheur ! bois profonds,
Nous vivons....

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXX XXXbXc XXXXdX XXXXXX XXXXde XdXXXf XXXgXX XahXXh XXXhXX XXXgXX XXXXXd XXiXXX eXXXXX XXXXgX XjXXfX XXXXXX XjXhXX jXekXX XXXXej hXbXXX cXhXgh XahXXX XdXXdX XXXeXX XXXXXX hhXXXX XXXXgd XXXXXX XXXgli XXXXXX ddXXdX XXXXXX XXXdXX XbeXkX XXXXXX kXXXXX XfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110 110 101111 1011111 110 101101 1001010 110 01110 101111 01 1110110 0111111 110 1110110 101101 101 1100010 1010110 110 11011 1101111 100 11001 1101010 100 11110 1011110 111 11101 101110 010 10111 1111110 11 101101 1010100 110 0111011 010111 0111 11111 1100111 011 101110 01001111 110 110010 1110101 111 10111100 1101111 11 1101100 1101110 110 111101 101011 110 10110 101110 101 1100110 1111110 110 1110111 10101111 10 0100110 111100 110 1111 1100101 110 10011 11101 10 101100 10101011 110 10111110 1111111 01100 11110011 11101 101 10111 101011 111 11111011 11001 101 1011110 101111 10 11100110 11101 010101 11001100 11011110 110 1010100 0101011 11 1001111 1110101 10 100010 11100 110 1011001 1011100 1011 01101 100111111 0111 11101001 111001 101 1110110 111010 110 1011111 1111001 101 1110101 111100 101 1101110 0101010 001 1101110 1100100 1110 11110 110110 110 111110 1100100 010 10110111 11011011 01 101111011 111110 100 100010 1101110 111 11111 0101011 111 1110110 1111010 101 111100 111111 10 110111 1111110 101 111101 1111110 111 1110100 101101 110 0111010 1011110 111 1101110 101010100 0111 10100111 111110 10 1101111 101110 111 1111 1111010 011 11001 110111 11 11111 1101010 100 0101100 1110010 110 1010110 1011111 11 1010101 1111111 111 110101 111111 011 0111111 1101111 100 111011 11101110 110 1010111 110111 10 110010 101101 11 01101100 11010100 101 1100111 101111 111 11100100 1101101 1101 1010011 1111011 110 101001 11111 11 11011 1101111 010 111101 11101110 111 101110 111111110 110 111111111 1100100 101 0101110 1011111 11 11011 111010 010 111110 1001010 1 1101 11010110 100 110010 1110110 110 11110 0100010 100 110101 10101100 110 111111 110010 10 01111 1110111 011 11010111 111010 111 111110 1010110 110 1111011 11011111 111 111110 100111 010 1111110 1011110 111 10111100 011101 110 011110 11011 100 01001
  • Amount of stanzas: 48
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 288
  • Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; des, aux, la, quand, les, oui, le, nous, c'est, sur, sans, volons are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words des, nous, tout, quand, les, et, c'est, le, sur, il are repeated.

    The author used the same words gr, il at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines t is repeated).

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