Aliment De Houille by Raoul Ponchon: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Aliment De Houille that begins with:

Ô Carême ! du haut du Ciel,
Ta demeure dernière,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXaX XXXXX XbXXb XXXXX XXXXX cXXcX XXXXX XXXXd aXXXd XXXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101 11010 10100110 1110110 100110 1111111 111 11010110 10011100 11011 11011100 11010 11101000 11100100 11101 11111010 101110 1110001 0111010 1110111 01111001 1110 1111111 111100010 11010 11111010 1111 1101100 1110110 10111 11111 111100 11111011 11001110 111100 10011011 100011 10001110 11111010 1110111 111110011 010110 1111010 1001101 10111 11001110 1110 1111110 0111111 100011
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les is repeated.

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