This is an analysis of the poem Le Spectacle that begins with:

Au fond d'un hall sonore et radiant,
Sous les ailes énormes...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX abXXcaaa XaXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXbXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXaXX XXXXXXcX XaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,6,11,10,11,8,4,19,8,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101100 11110 11101101000 100111110 11110111 011011100111 110010100011 11101101100 0011111110 1011101110010 1000111110 111010010101 1100010011 10111011110 1010101010100 100001111010 1111100100 101011101 1110101111001 11101100 1001 11 1101111 101011 11111111111 11110101101 1111111110 11110011 1111011010 101111111110 11111110110 111001000 011111100 101011111 1110111110 101010110011 101101101110 1011011011 111111010110 1011011110 11100110 011001101110 111100101 11101110 111001110011 11001111110 111110111010 101011101000 11011101110 1000101110110 1101111 11111111 11011101000 1011011010 1110111111 11101111111 11110111110 1111101111100 10101100110 11101011 100 101010111101101 111101010 111011011 11101110010 111111000 11011011010 1110110111111 111001100 110101 1110101 111010100 1011111110 110111011 111101011 1110111100 1101101110 110010101010 100011010010 11101011110 111001101110 11011111001 11011111100 110110110 11101010111 110111110 111011010 111011111101 11100111111110 11011111 011101101 111100110 10111101110 111101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 362
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 94
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, et, des, la, o, le, un, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, o, il, se, un, des are repeated.

    The author used the same words des, et 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 re, te are repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

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