This is an analysis of the poem Le Jeune Homme Et Le Vieillard that begins with:
« De grâce, apprenez-moi comment l'on fait fortune,
Demandait à son père un jeune ambitieux. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001101110 1001111100 101101011010 10111101110 010011110110 11001100 1110111 111110110 11010111010111 1111011110100 11111010 11111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 525
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; ses is repeated.
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- summary of Le Jeune Homme Et Le Vieillard;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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