This is an analysis of the poem L'Obélisque De Luxor that begins with:

Je veille, unique sentinelle
De ce grand palais dévasté, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XbXb cXXX cXcX XbXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 11101100 011011 1110110 110100 010011111 11100 0110011 111010 1100111 011110 11011111 1100001 011111 110001 1111000 11111010 11101100 10101111 101111000 11110110 0101111 10011110 111011 010101 110101 1111011 10101 110011 11101101 11010100 1110100 10101000 101110010 10011010 10101111000 1100010 11110101 011011 10101110 1110011 1010011 111111 1011001 1101100 11100111 11010 1111111 111000 11001110 1101111 11101110 1000001 111011011 1110110 111011 10101001 11110111 1111001 10101110 11111 1111110 101110 1000100 11111 11001010 1110110 10110100 101101100 1101001 1110011 11111110 1011011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; le is repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase le connects the lines.

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  • summary of L'Obélisque De Luxor;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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