This is an analysis of the poem Le Gel that begins with:
Sous le fuligineux étain d'un ciel d'hiver,
Le froid gerce le sol des plaines assoupies, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX XXX XXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10100011110 0110111100 1111111101 110110101101 101110110010 0110110010 110101100110 1100010111001 11000110110 101111111110 1010011111101 1101011110 110011011 110111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; le, de are repeated.
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- summary of Le Gel;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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