This is an analysis of the poem La Pendule that begins with:
J’ai dans ma chambre une pendule,
Qui n’a rien de particulier,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX XXXX bXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXc XXXX dXXX XXXX dXXX XcXc bXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 11101000 111101 11101110 1011110 111110010 1100110 11111110 1111111111 1110100 111111 1111011 101111011 101111100 1110110 01111110 110100 111111 1111111 11111110 11111100 110111 11111100 011111001 110010 111010011 111001 11011100 11111111 111110 1101010 111110110 1011000 1101111 1011100 11111001 111011110 11101110 111111101 11110101 1111110111 11101 1111111 101010 11110110 111010 11111111 100111111 1111101111 11110111 1111111 111111101 11111101 11100011 11100100 111011110 01011110 110110 10111100 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, en, la are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words elle, je, are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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- summary of La Pendule;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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