This is an analysis of the poem Le Vieux Temps that begins with:
1 Venez ici, mon cher ami, an' sit down by me--so
2 An' I will tole you story of old tam long ago--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX bbcX XadX aecc XXbX ffae aghc cXaa aaXX Xihh XXhX jXXd XaXb hhcX eahX hckX Xhii hhcc XlbX ggXX ddcX mmii XaXX XaXX lljX aadd hXXc Xhkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101110111111 11101110011101 11100010110101 111011111110111 111111111011111 11111110010001 1111111101110111 10111100111110 111111111011110 1011101111111111 111111111011111101 111111000111011010 111110111110101 111111101110110 1110111001110111 111101101110111 11101110111110 1111011101110101 1110101000110111 111111101110110 10101110111011 110111110110101 11100110111101 10100111010100 11101010111111 101011101111011 1111010111110100 1111111001010011 1111101011010111 11111110011111 101101001011111 111101011111111 10111111101011111 111010110010101 111111101111110 1110111111111100 111100101111110 101111101111111 110010011110111 111111101011001 1111011011111100 11111111111101 111010110110101 1101110011101110 11101110111100 111011101111110 1111111011110101 1110010111111111 101111010111011 1011011111111111 111011111101110 1111111110110010 111111111110101 111111100110111 111011101110111 101101110111100 11101111111110 110111110010101 111011011101001111 111111011111011101 111110111110100 111111111110101 11111011101110 11001111110111100 111111010111110 111101111111011 11111111111110101 11111101111111111 111110110110111 111110101011 111011110011101 11111111011010101 1101111111110110 11111101111110111 111111111110101 111011100011101 1111011101111101 111110101111101 111111111111110 11101111111101 1111010101101001 1111101011110101 110110111011101 1011111111111110 1111011111111111 111111111111111 111110101111111 111011111111111 1111011110110110 111111111111111 111001111111011 1111001011110101 1111111111011110 1111010101111111 1111110100111110 1110101111111110 111101111010111 11011110111101 1111111100110100 11011111111010 110111101101111 1111110111111111 1111001111110111 11101011111001111 111110101110101 111110101111110 111110110111111 111011111111011 1110111111111111 111111110110001 11111110110110 111110110011110
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 112
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', i, he, 's, day, de, dat, we, on, dey, way, some, you, if, tam, elmire are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Le Vieux Temps;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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