This is an analysis of the poem Le Monocle De Mon Oncle that begins with:

“Mother of heaven, regina of the clouds,
O sceptre of the sun, crown of the moon, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdebbbbdd XfecacacdbgX Xaaadhaibjgk XXihfdjjjhjl mfhlnioflbXh mgbpabXbolcb Xbbnmhaglgbl Xnjainahojga XbfchXhccXjl gngapagajklm mjahhijeoXXa Xmjjmjjjjgpj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10010010001 1100011001 10110111010 1011001111 111100010010 1101111101 1111100101 0101011101 01001011111 01110011001 01110100100 1 0111010101 00011111010 0101011111 0100101111 111001101 1101010101 10111111001 11010101111 10111010100 1101010101 0101010100 1 0011011101 1100011101 100110111 1111010101 1111000101 0101011101 11010010001 0111010101 1111010101 10110111001 1111001101 1 01010100101 1001001101 1101010111 10000100101 1101111101 0001010101 101100010001 0111110101 1001001101 0100011101 0111010101 1 00111101001 00110011111 1111010100 01000010001 0101000101 11010010101 11000010111 1101010101 1011011101 0011111100 1100110111 1 0111000101 001001111001 0101010101 1001001101 1011010001 1101011100 0100011101 1100111101 0001010100 0101011100 0001110101 1 0111011101 0101000101 10001100101 1100110011 111000111 1101010101 0100010100 01001011111 1101111111 01110010111 0101010101 1 1011010101 1101110011 0101010111 01001010101 1101110111 1101010111 0001010101 0101110101 1111010111 0101010101 1001110101 1 0101010101 10011110111 10101010100 11001011101 0101010100 11000101001 0111011100 1111111101 101011000100 0110011111 0101000011 1 0101001101 1001000101 010001001101 1101011101 1111011101 1101010101 1101110111 0100011101 0101000101 0111111011 1111111101 1 010111001001 1111110111 1100100010001 1111111111 1001010101 0101010101 01111110010 1111010101 100010100110 1001011101 10010101001 1 011000110011 11001011111 011000110001 11001101111 0111010011 01010100111 1101001101 1011110101 1101010011 0110111101 11001110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 478
  • Average number of words per stanza: 86
  • Amount of lines: 144
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, in, as, to, it, all, no are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.

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  • summary of Le Monocle De Mon Oncle;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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