This is an analysis of the poem In Snow-Time that begins with:

How should I chose to walk the world with thee,
Mine own beloved? When green grass is stirred...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababacacbXbdaa efefffffdfdfgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010101 1101011101 1101011101 10010100101 0101010111 1001001101 01010001001 1101111111 0101010101 11001110101 0111111101 0101010101 0101001101 1111010101 0101000101 11111101011 1001011001 1111001101 010101011 11110010101 1101011111 1111010111 1011010101 01110011001 1011110111 01111101011 1101111101 1111011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 609
  • Average number of words per stanza: 114
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.

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  • summary of In Snow-Time;
  • central theme;
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