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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