This is an analysis of the poem Paysage De Neige that begins with:

Au dedans, le silence et la paix sont profonds ;
De froides pesanteurs descendent des plafonds, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXXXXaXXXaaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110010111110 010100010110 1101001101000 100111000110 0111111101 11001011010 111001111 01100001110 10101111100110 111110111000 1001001111 0110101001 1111011110 10111010100 1110111010 1001111101 110111010 111111010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 831
  • Average number of words per stanza: 143
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • 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; des is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, al are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase le connects the lines.

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  • summary of Paysage De Neige;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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