This is an analysis of the poem Before The Snow that begins with:
The winter is upon us, not the snow,
The hills are etched on the horizon bare,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cbcbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0100011101 0111100101 0111010101 011010011 1101010111 11110110011 1111010101 0111010111 0111110011 1101110111 0101110011 1111010001 1111010111 0111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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