This is an analysis of the poem Le Vieux Parler that begins with:

Si je le parle, à coeur de jour,
Au pays, avec les miens, comme ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXaX XXXXX XXXXX XbXXX XXXXX XbXXX XaXXX XccXX cXbcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101101 1110111 1111100 0101101 11100110 11010101 101101110 11101010 11010110 11110010 01101110 0101110 1111100 1111010 1011010 10011100 1001011 11011110 100010110 110110 10010010 11111000 10111000 111111 1101100 1111110 11101111 1111111 11010101 11110010 10100110 1101101 1100010 111011110 111110 1011010 110101 0111111 101110 1010111 0101001 011110 10101011 10101010 1111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 45
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; et is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words au, l'habitant are repeated.

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

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