This is an analysis of the poem Le Premier Givre that begins with:
L'hiver est sorti de sa tombe,
Son linceul blanchit le vallon ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXa XXbX cXcb bXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- 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: 100110011 11010010 0101011 01101100 1101111 11010011 010111 10110011 1100110 0111110 01011010 10110010 011111 1011010 10011011 1011101 11011 1001110 11010100 11001100 1110101 11100110 1010100 11111010 1110010 01011010 0111111 01010101 11111110 01111110 11011101 11011010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, le are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word le is repeated.
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- summary of Le Premier Givre;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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