This is an analysis of the poem La Vieillesse that begins with:
Viennent les ans ! J'aspire à cet âge sauveur
Où mon sang coulera plus sage dans mes veines,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXa XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101110 111100111110 111011101010 11101001011010 11010100010 11110101110 11011110010 111110001011 100110101110 111001011101 1011011111011 1101110101110 1111110111011 10110011010 111100011011 110101011110 11011111010 111010111011 0110011111110 11011010111 11111001101 101011110110 11001110111111 10111011110 111101011011 110011011010 1011111111 11110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, je, de, le, des, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, pour, et are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of La Vieillesse;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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