This is an analysis of the poem Il A Neigé La Veille Et, Tout Le Jour, Il Gèle that begins with:

Il a neigé la veille et, tout le jour, il gèle.
Le toit, les ornements de fer et la margelle...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaabXXXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111110111 011100011110 010111110011 111110101011 01011101110 111111011010 110010010001 10011111010 110110110 111010100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 481
  • Average number of words per stanza: 91
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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, et 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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