This is an analysis of the poem La Blanche Neige that begins with:

Les anges les anges dans le ciel
L'un est vêtu en officier...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX aXaa XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110101 10111100 10111100 111010 11001001 01101011 11001101 1101 0100111 111 111111 1111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word l'un is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines soleil is repeated).

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  • summary of La Blanche Neige;
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