This is an analysis of the poem Le Monôme that begins with:

Or, c’est dans ta rue, ô Penthièvre,
Et, sans doute, au numéro cent :...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XbXX XXXc XXXX XXXX baXX babX XXXa cccb XdeX XXXX XcXX XXXX XXXa daXX fgfg XaXX cXcX bbXb XXXX XXXX XXbX XgXg XecX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110 1111101 111101101 10001110 10100101 1001111 1111101 1110110 11101000 1011101 110110110 101110 11110111 11000110 11010101 0101110 11101110 11101110 111010 111110 1111011 1111101 11110110 101111 100111 01111010 1111011 11111110 110110 101100 01110110 10110110 11011101 11011100 110110 101011011 11110110 111111 10101010 1111111 00111011 1010101 1111011 11011010 01011010 1101111 0101100111 11101111 01001110 11011100 11101110 110101 10110100 1100111 11110111 11110101 1110111 1111110 11110 10110010 11011101 1101111 1100011 11111001 11011110 11011111 10011010 11011010 1011101 11001100 11111 11110 1101011 11001001 101111000 10110110 111010 111100 11011 0101000 1011100 011110 110110 10110100 11011110 1011010 1110111 1110111 10111100 1011110 1111110 1011010 101110 10110110 10110111 111111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; vre, leur, le, nous are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word leur is repeated.

    The author used the same word le at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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