This is an analysis of the poem Nuit De Neige that begins with:

La grande plaine est blanche, immobile et sans voix.
Pas un bruit, pas un son ; toute vie est éteinte....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011010111 11111111011 1110101111 11110111111 1010111111010 10110011100 110110100 110010101110 110111111111 110100110111 0110111011 1101110110 111011110101 10001101110 1111111000 1101001110 111001111010 1111011111 11011010110 1110110111010 11110111010 11111011111 01110110011 01010011111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; et is repeated.

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

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  • summary of Nuit De Neige;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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