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

Dans son hideux palais sous les roches creusé,
Itobal rentre seul ; à côté de la porte,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXXX XXXXXXXXXaaaX XXXX XXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,13,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100111101 100111011 11110011101 11110110111 1110111011 1111011011 11101101010 1100110110 110100111 1100111011 110110110100 110100101110 1101111111010 1111111011010 10111011010 10111111110 1110111110 11110011001 110111011 0111101111 11100011110 111011111100 100100111100 11010110011 110111110010 100110101011 111001100100 1111101010 1010101101 101100011010 111001111 111010110 11010110111 100101010010 11000111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 330
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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, je, les, des, et are repeated.

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

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

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

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