This is an analysis of the poem La Vie Antérieure (My Earlier Life) that begins with:
J'ai longtemps habité sous de vastes portiques
Que les soleils marins teignaient de mille feux,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX bXX XXX C XdaX eedd feg dfe X c hdhd deed fbb fii X C Xjdj eeee jdd gjg h X Xeed dkkd dfd fjj b c Xdgd adad fXd dii l b Xdaj dXad XXd dfi Xl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110101010100 11101010011 11111011100 1010011101000 110110110011 111100101 11100101110 1100101111 11111111010 101010110110 1110011110 1110000110110 1110111000 010100111010 1101 101111101100 101011001010 01001111010 100010110010 010110010001 1000101001 001001011100 001010010011 011111001001 01001010101 111010111001 11110101 111101010 010010111101 010110100 101 1101110101 110001001001 1101010101 0101011001 0101000101 1001010101 01001001101 0100011011 10110001001 110111010110 11010110010 1111001101 11011001010 01010111010 0101110 1101 110100100111000 1100111000101 100111000101 11010010100111 0101010100001 1100001001101 100111100101 000101000101 101101010001 010101010111 111101011101 101110111101 111110110011 01001100100111 0101110 1110 111011100 11011101001 1101010101 11001010101 0101011101 10010100101 01110001101 0101001101 1111011101 11110001001 11010010101 1111010101 1101010101 0111010011 0101101011 11001 1010110101100 10100111001010 110100101011 10001010110011 011010010110 10100010001 1000110110 001000010010111 0111110001001 00101001010 101110110010 101110101 110101010010 011001110 0101100100 100010 1011111011000 10010101101 111011010 1010010110001 011010010001 1010011000 0110010001110 001000101010111 0011111011000 00100010101110 101110001 101110011 11011010 01001011110 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 40
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 116
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; les, des, which, in, and, my, of are repeated.
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- summary of La Vie Antérieure (My Earlier Life);
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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