This is an analysis of the poem La Vieille that begins with:

Comme des mains
Coupées, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbAX XXXc baXXXX XXXdXX eabXXa dffXAXAb XacaXaeX XXXXXXXX AXAb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,6,6,8,8,8,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111 1 11011110 11111 1111000100 100110010 0110111 10111101 10101011 101100111 1111101110 111011110 1111010 10101101 111001110110 1100111010 110111110 0111110111 11110101011011 100011110011 101010110111 1110101011 110110111 11110010 01111110 0111011 1111111101 11111110 11101010111 01101011100 11011110 1000101 111 1 1011101111 1010111 10111101 10110101 10111010 11111011001 110010 1101011 11001010 1111111010 11110111010 11010100 10110101010 1101010110 111011111011 11101110 11011110 1000101 111 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, et, de are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of La Vieille;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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