This is an analysis of Caprice Blanc by Émile Nelligan.

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

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 100110110110 10101001011 0110111110 10010011101 110111011 111001110100 1010111100 1111110011 111011111010 1011110111 110111111111 101100111100 101101101 1111010100 0111101100 11101011110110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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