This is an analysis of the poem Jardin D'Hiver that begins with:

Ma vie, où des vols de colombes
Neigeaient autrefois dans l'azur, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXa aXXX XbXb XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110100 10100110 0111010010 10110111 11010111 101111 11011011 11110001 11101101 11101 0111110 1101011 111011 1101110 101110 10110100 10111111 1111101 11011011 1110101 1001110 111110 11101100 110110 11011111 01101110 101110 01100111 11111110 1100100 0111111 1011010 01111100 01111111 111110100 1011010 111001110 11110100 01011110 1011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • 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.

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  • summary of Jardin D'Hiver;
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  • history of its creation;
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