This is an analysis of the poem Le Premier Janvier that begins with:
Vents qui secouez les brandies pendantes
Des sapins neigeux au front blanchissant ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa aXaX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110100 1101011100 111111100 011111010 10010101110 111101110 11110101010 1100111010 10001100110 10111101 10101110110 110111010 11011011 01011110 101011101 10111111 011001001 1010110 110111111 01111100 111111011 1110111100 11101011010 111101111 111011101 101010010 111011001 1111110111 1111111110 111101100 1101111110 101101101 11111111 0111001110 11011101 110011111 1111011101 1110111100 11011111 1111011110 11001100 110110110 110011000 1111011100 1001110110 1101111100 1010101111 10111011
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; qui, des, le, o, nos, vont, va are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ce, o are repeated.
The author used the same word ils at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ils connects the lines.
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- summary of Le Premier Janvier;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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