This is an analysis of the poem The Seven Old Men that begins with:
À Victor Hugo
Ant-like city, city full of dreams, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcdedfXfdfagXgbeeehbhXXdedihieXhhhjfjfhhhheeeeekdk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 53,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010 111010101 10101111010 10010110111 1010100110 110110101 01011101 0101011101 1111001101 0101011101 10001010101 1011101011 101010111 10011101110 10001000111 110110101 011010100001 01111011 10101010101 1011110101 110111001 111111001 101110001 110101001 11010111 011010011100 10111111 1010011101 01001110100 101011111 110100101001 1101110001 1011011011 1101011001 11011101010 10110111010 011001110010 0101110100 11110001010 01010110100 1101101010 1111011111 101010110001010 1010011011 11111111010 010100111110 1101101101 1011100110 10110000111 0111010101 0101000101 110101111 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2224
- Average number of words per stanza: 384
- Amount of lines: 53
- 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; his, some are repeated.
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- summary of The Seven Old Men;
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- idea of the verse;
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