This is an analysis of the poem Minuit Blanc that begins with:
Dalles au fond des lointains clairs et lacs d'opales,
Pendant les grands hivers, lorsque les nuits sont pâles ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX aXXXXXXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011110111100 10111011111 1101001111110 0111111101010 011010111010 11000011010 110111111011 1110001110 1111111110 11111111011100 011011110101 10101111111 111011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 336
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, et, de, ces are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word le is repeated.
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