Flowers-De-Luce: Noël by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Flowers-De-Luce: Noël that begins with:

Quand les astres de Noël
Brillaient, palpitaient au ciel, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXAX XbXXAX XXXXAX XXXbAX XXcXAX XXXXAX dXXcAX XXXXAX eeXXAX XXXXAX dXXXAb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001 1010011 1101101 1010101 110 1011100 1100100 111011 11101101 010111010 110 0110100 1010110 1101110 1110010 1001110 110 111100 1000100 1011110 1101010 100101 110 111100 011011 0111110 1010101 111110 110 111100 1011100 1011110 1001 110101 110 111100 1011011 1101110 1101101 1010001 110 111100 1010011 101110 1101110 1000101 110 1001100 1100101 1010001 1010111 110110 110 011100 1011110 1011101 10101110 10111000 110 0110100 1100101 10110110 10011000 11000010 110 1001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 66
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4

  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

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  • summary of Flowers-De-Luce: Noël;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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