This is an analysis of the poem Caprice Blanc that begins with:

L'hiver, de son pinceau givré, barbouille aux vitres
Des pastels de jardins de roses en glaçons....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100110110110 10101001011 0110111110 10010011101 110111011 111001110100 1010111100 1111110011 111011111010 1011110111 110111111111 101100111100 101101101 1111010100 0111101100 11101011110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; de, la are repeated.

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  • summary of Caprice Blanc;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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