Vieux Souvenir by Louis Honoré Fréchette: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Vieux Souvenir that begins with:

Oui, je suis revenu sous la fenêtre aimée,
Dérobée à moitié sous les grands arbres verts,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX XXX XaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 011111001111 110111101 11101110010 110110111 110100111010 11101111010 11001111 111010110011 111110111100 11010110100 010101010110 1100111010 110101111100 01101011111 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; e, les are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Vieux Souvenir;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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