This is an analysis of the poem Pauvres Vieilles Cités that begins with:

Pauvres vieilles cités par les plaines perdues,
Dites de quel grand plan de gloire, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXXa XXXX bXXb XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XccX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010111110 10011101 11110110 1011100 1111001111011 1111011 1010100 01101110 11001100111 1011110 11101100 11001111 110110111 10101100 11011000 11111011 11111011101 1111011 1110100 11101111 11110011010 100110100 11100100 1111010 110110101100 111101110 11110110 111101110 1101111111 1110011010 10101000 1100110 1111001110011 11011 11011110 010111 1011111111 10111111 1110111 111000110 11101101100 1101010 1111101 11101010 110110101010 11100100 1010010 111011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; vos is repeated.

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

    The author used the same word vos at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of Pauvres Vieilles Cités;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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