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

Vous souvient-il des jours, vieillards de ma patrie,
Où nos pères, luttant contre la tyrannie,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXb XXcdac eefXXf bgebXh eXXXXX XXXXXh XXXdXg XibXXX X XXXXbhXH XXXXXXXH XXbXXX XH XXXXXXXH hdXXXeeH XXXXXXjH XeXXbeXh XXXXhX XXXXXX XXXXXX bXjXiX X XXXXXX aXXXhX XXcXXX XXbXXbbXXXXXXXXXXhXXhXbh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,8,8,6,2,8,8,8,8,6,6,6,6,1,6,6,6,24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111001100 111101110 1110101010100 10101111 1100111010 01110100101 111101111110 1011101100110 10111011001 0101111011 1101110101100 111110111 10100110110 111110111 1110110111 111100111 110111010111 110010101011 10100111011 010111011 10110111001 111110100101 101111110111 01110100111 111100111011 10110010010 110010100010 1111001101 10111011 10111010110 10110001110 100101110100 10111110110 111111111010 100110100110 100111110101 101100110110 11110100110 010100110100 111101110011 11101111110 101111101010 101100100011 10111011111 10011111001 10111010110 110001011010 101101110110 10110100 110110110 1110110010 1111111110 101011010 111011001111 1110111111 01111101110 11111110011 1110111 111011100 100011110 11111111 1101101100 1010110110 1100110100 11111110011 10010001 1001110111 10101010101 110011110 101110110 1011111010 11100111110 11111110011 111110100 111111110 1101111110 10111110 111111011100 111101 10011011100 11111110011 001111011 1010101011 11111110 0110110111 111010010 1000101001 111010011 11111110011 11011110 111111100 110101011 01101111 111101111 010111011 01101111011 11111110011 111011011 11101110101 11111011 1101100110 1110110011 0111110111 0111111010 11001111101 111101101101 110011101111 11010010110 11110111011 11011101011 10011011010 1011101110 10110101011 1011001110 0100110111 11101001101 10001110100 10110101010 1111001110 1110111010 1111011011110 110101010 11101111000 11110010111 1000101110 111011111 11110001111 11111101100 111010110110 1011001100 11110111010 1010111010 01001011010 1011111100 11110011101 1110111001 110111011100 1110111 111000111110 10110011011 101110110011 110010111110 11011111110 110111110 0111111110 1101011010 111110110 110110110010 10100110101 110110110 110110100101 10011011110 11001011011 10010111101 011001110111 10101110100 1001011111010 111101100110 10111011110 0101010110 11100110100 111010101100 11001100110 111010111010 1101101110 110100010011 1111011011 11110011010 11110110011 11010110110 101010110011 1110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 26
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 174
  • 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; de, je, le, nos, les, la, nous are repeated.

    The author used the same word quand 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 re, me, e, res, mes, es are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word pas at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Le Vieux Soldat Canadien;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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