This is an analysis of the poem Sur Le Carnaval De Venise I - Dans La Rue that begins with:

Il est un vieil air populaire
Par tous les violons raclé, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111100 111101 1101111 1111010 1100010 1111010 111010110 1111110 111101000 11111010 1010101100 10111110 1101110 0101010 11101100 01101100 10110110 11111001 1111110 10100111 11111000 10111010 010001110 1101110 10100100 11110101 0100101 01011010 110111 11001011 11111 10110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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.

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  • summary of Sur Le Carnaval De Venise I - Dans La Rue;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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