Analysis of French Song
Louisa May Alcott 1832 – 1888
'J'avais une colombe blanche,
J'avais un blanc petit pigeon,
Tous deux volaient, de branche en branche,
Jusqu'au faîte de mon dongeon:
Mais comme un coup de vent d'automne,
S'est abattu là, l'épervier,
Et ma colombe si mignonne
Ne revient plus au colombier.'
| Scheme | ABABBCBC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101 1111010 1111111 111111 1111111 1011111 1101011 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 262 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 197 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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