This is an analysis of the poem Le Palais D'Ithaque that begins with:

L’éloquence des nuits clignote sur Ithaque.
Un chœur d’avènement palpite dans les bois....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX XXXb XXXX XXXX XXab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110110 1110010111 111001111 101010111100 11110110011 1011110011 011011111 10111111101 11101011001 10101010010 11011101111 11101011110 11101101100 1110110111110 101010110110 111101101 110111110001 10001111011 110001101011 100111011 1011111001 101010100111 01101001011 011101110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ne, l, son, des, le, de are repeated.

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  • summary of Le Palais D'Ithaque;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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