Noël D'Amour by Paul Armand Silvestre: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Noël D'Amour that begins with:

NOËL ! — En voyant, dans ses langes
L’enfant radieux que tu fus,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXaX XXXX aXXX aXXX XXaX 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: 11101110 1010111 11101110 111101 01010110 1100111 01110110 1111110 10111011 1101100 1111100 1101110 1010111 1101110 0110011 110111 11101011 11011110 1110111 11110110 111111 100111 1011001 11110110 10101110 1011101 110101100 1110100 1011100 111110 1101110 1101110 01101110 111101 1101110 1110111 111111111 1110111 1110001 1111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; des, les are repeated.

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  • summary of Noël D'Amour;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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