This is an analysis of the poem La Neige that begins with:
La neige tombe, indiscontinûment,
Comme une lente et longue et pauvre laine,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XbbXXXXX XXXX ccXXXX XbdXd XXbXbXXX aaXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,4,6,5,8,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110000 11111111 101111111 110101 1111000 1110 1011110 111111 1011110 11101110 11111 100110011110 010110010 10011011 010110110 010111101010 01011111 1111111 111111111 111110 1111111111 1111011100 11001101 110011111 111010001 11011111 1000110001 111011111 10001110 111111 11111110 111011 101010 101000011111 111111111 10111111 111111 1011111 111110 110101000 110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; et, la, neige, des, au, fond, de, en are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words la, les are repeated.
The author used the same words la, le at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines moment is repeated).
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- summary of La Neige;
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