This is an analysis of the poem Vieux De La Vieille that begins with:

Par l'ennui chassé de ma chambre,
J'errais le long du boulevard :...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXb XaXX XXXc dXXX XXef XgXg XXaX XXXX XXXX XgXX hXXX XXcX iXiX hXXX XXXe XXXX XXXX XXcX bXXf eXXX XdXX XXff XXXX XXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011 10010101 1101101 1111101 111111001 1011 1111111 10110111 101111110 11101100 11101110 10010000 111111010 10111011 11110100 1100011 111101101 1101010 1100110 1110100 11101010 011110 11110111 110111 10111001 110110 01010110 111101110 11110110 1100110 11000011 10110010 1111100 1101110 111101 101100 1111110 0101010 11101011 110110 101110 10101010 1010111 0111111 101011 1101011 111011 11111001 110110 1110111 1110111 011101 1100111 111111 110111 1011101 11110001 101010 11101111 011110 111101100 101101 1010110 1010001 100111 1111111 1100010 0101101 1110001 111101 1110011 10111101 11110111 010110 11101111 0110110 11101111 1101111 11111111 110010111 111101011 10101010 110011110 0111111 111111100 10111001 110110110 1100111 1101110 10001110 11001011 1111010 10111001 11011100 110010 10111001 110111 101100110 011110 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 100
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; la, s, des, de, leur, le are repeated.

    The author used the same word c'est at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Vieux De La Vieille;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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