This is an analysis of the poem La Neige that begins with:
Qu'il est doux, qu'il est doux d'écouter des histoires,
Des histoires du temps passé,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XAXXXXaX XXbX XXXc XXXX XXbb bXXX XdXX XXXX aacX X XdXX XXaX XXXX bXXX XeXe XXXX XXXa XAXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001110011101100 1100011 111010110 11101111111 1111111101 110101110010 10010111110 1110110110 111011111111 1011011001 0110101101111 11111110110 010111111100 1111110010110 11011101110 1000111111 1000110110 1101010011 1111111000 11001011100 011111010011 1100101111 101100111001 10111011111 10011111101 1001101111 11101111111 01010111111 11011111010 10111011011 11011111101 11111110010 100101111 111100101010 1101001010 11010011011 11111010111 1110111111 100101101 01111011111 1 11110110100 011010110101 1111011101 1111011101 1101111111 10111011111 11110111111 11001101110 1110101100100 11111101000 101110101 1110011100 111011101101 1111111011 111010110011 110111010 110111110 1011011001 101110111100 1111011001 110011100111 1101011011 11111111111 01011111100 1001011011 11011101001 1100101001 1111111101 1001110011101100 1100011 111010110 11101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; est, le, et, la, les, des are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words quand, doucement, et are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines s, e, te are repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of La Neige;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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