This is an analysis of the poem Le Vieux Montréal that begins with:
Dans leurs excursions des tropiques aux pôles,
Nos pères, à travers fleuves, monts et marais,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX XXa XXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11010110011 1110101111 1011101111 1011011001 10111010111 11010101100 11110111100 100111100100 101011010110 11111100010 1110101101010 10011011100 11110110010100 1111101110 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; leurs, des are repeated.
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- summary of Le Vieux Montréal;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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