This is an analysis of the poem À Un Vieux Marcheur that begins with:
Ô vieux marcheur, épuisé devant l’âge,
Amant volage,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXX bXaXXX cXXcXX XXcXXX aadXXX XXXXXX XXXXaa XbdXXX XXXeXX XcXXXX XXXXeX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101 1010 0110 11100101110 0100 1110 1100111111 10 110 111101110 11100 1110 11111101111 100 110 11111111101 1010 1100 10111010110 1110 111 110110111 111 1110 1011111010 11 11 11111111110 1101 110 111111111 111 1110 10101100100 11100 110 1010101110 1110 1100 11010110 0101 1111 111111111100 1101 110 110011010 11000 1110 111010010 1110 0010 1111101011 100 100 111111110 0111 1111 111111110111 1111 1101 111111110 1110 100 111111011100 10110 1110 1111110011 111111 1100 111100110 11100 10
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines montre is repeated).
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