This is an analysis of the poem Ici, C'Est Un Vieil Homme De Cent Ans that begins with:
Ici, c'est un vieil homme de cent ans
qui dit, selon la chair, Flandre et le sang :...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXa XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111011 1110111101 1001110011 1101101110 110111111 1111111100 111010101 1110110110 111011111 110011110 1011011111 1101010101 1111010110 10110101010 11111111100 1111011111 111011110 111111110 101001111 1001111100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; en, ses, et, des, de are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase en connects the lines.
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