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

Par l'issue ouverte sur le boyau dans la craie
En regardant la paroi adverse qui semble en nougat...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXX XXXXXXXcXXXXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXdXdXXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,35,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101010111 11001100111110 11111110101 11111111001110001101001110 11110111011011 10101110011010 1111110111111 1110101111100111101010 110011001111111010 010011010001001 10100110110011110100010 101111101101110010 101111101111110011000 110111111111110111101 1110011101100011011100 110111101010010100110 1101011011101110 11111 1100111011100111001 1001101101111 11110110101001 1111011010010111 1110 1000110011010111000 111100111110100 101111110 1110010101 10011101110001 1110110 11010110 1111101111101100110 0111010110111 10101111101000 10111011110100 0011101111110011010 0110111111001011110 100111100 1001110111110 1110111101011111 110111110111 11001111 1100110111110 111010110010 010100 110111011100 11111111 110111111 1011101101101100 11 11100111 1101100111111111 111010 10111100 1110111011011101110010 1011110100110011011101 0110111101101 1110110100 01001011011101001 11011011110110 011011111 10110011010 1010101001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1828
  • Average number of words per stanza: 336
  • Amount of lines: 62
  • Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, et, le, de, des, il, ce, un, qui, bleues, o, tout, est, si, y, plus are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words petit, tout are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Le Palais Du Tonnerre;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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