This is an analysis of the poem Il Neige that begins with:
C'est un après-midi du Nord.
Le ciel est blanc et morne. Il neige ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXX XXXX aXXX bXXX XXXX XXXc XXXX XXXc bXAX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001 010111111 11010111 1101110 1010111 1101110 01011010 11111110 0111001 1001100 10101100 1101101 111011 101101 1010111 1111 110011 11101 1101111 1011110 1111011110 10110011 11111110 10010011 111111011 11110 0100111 1110100 111101110 111011 10110110 111011 10101011 100011 1111001 010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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; le is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word d is repeated.
The author used the same word je at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word re at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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