This is an analysis of the poem De Ce Royal Palais Que Bâtiront Mes Doigts, that begins with:

De ce royal palais que bâtiront mes doigts,
Si la bonté du roi me fournit de matière,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX XXX aXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 01100111011 11101110010 11101111010 110010011110 11111110111 11110111110 10101011100 100101111110 10000111011 100100101 010010010110 101011111010 101100111110 1110101111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; de, son, le are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of De Ce Royal Palais Que Bâtiront Mes Doigts,;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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