This is an analysis of the poem Palais that begins with:

Vers le palais de Rosemonde au fond du Rêve
Mes rêveuses pensées pieds nus vont en soirée...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXX aXXXX XXbX XXXa XXXX XbXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101001101 1101011111 00110111111 11101100110 111011010110 110010111100 10111110100 10011011011 01010111110 1101101001 1111100101 11110010110 11101001010 101011111111 101001101 110111101111 1011011011 11111110 111001 010101110 111100 11101100011 110110111011 10111101110 01110011100 110111101100 100110011010 111100111010 101111110110 11100100110 11010101110 111111101100 11101101100 111010101100 1001111101 11111101100 110101101100 111111101000 1101 101011100 11100100111 110110111100 1111111100 100111101100 11100110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 45
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; le, sur, de, des, ces are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word sur is repeated.

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  • summary of Palais;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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