This is an analysis of the poem L'Obélisque De Paris that begins with:
Sur cette place je m'ennuie,
Obélisque dépareillé ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa XXbc XXdd XXXX XXeX bXXX XXXc XXXa XXXX XXXX eXeX XXXa XfXf XXXX XbbX XXXX XXXX
- 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: 111111 1010 11111 101111 111101 11001101 111010 11111101 101100100 1110010 101111010 1111111011 1011010 1100010 10111010 1011001 1111110 1101 1011111 11011110 1100100 10110 11110111001 11111 1100101 10011100 10111011 01011110 11011011 11001110 1011010 11101101 1101111 1101010 10111111 1001111 01111 1010101 1001111 1101110 111101 1110100 1011101 10001011 101010101 0111111 10011001 110111 11011001 1011001 111101100 11100111 11101001 1010101 1101111 11101111 111111100 1011111 111111000 11101111 111111100 0101010 10111010 10110 1111000 11101000 111100110 11101100 1101111 110111 1111111 10110010
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 72
- 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; un, de, les, des are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
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