This is an analysis of the poem Notre-Dame Des Neiges that begins with:

Sainte Notre-Dame, en beau manteau d'or,
De sa lande fleurie...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXX XbXbXXXX XcXXXXXX XXXXXXca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111101 0111 01111111 11101 11010110110 1111 100010110 0110 110101111 110110 101111001 01010 11011011 01101 1110110010 11011 1101111 011101 1101101 111110 1101101010 101011 101011010 111111 11010110 1011010 10011101110 1111110 1110110010 1001 11100111110 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; de is repeated.

    The author used the same word sainte at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Notre-Dame Des Neiges;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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