This is an analysis of the poem The Snow At Fredericksburg that begins with:
Drift over the sunrise land,
Oh, wonderful, wonderful snow!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbaXdd debeafdf dbXbghah cgggXddd eiXieede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111 11001001 1110100101 1100111 100100111 1000101 00100110101 11011001 000100101 1101101 1110100101 1101101 1110011101 1100101 1011110101 1100101 110110101 1100101 10100110001 10100101 1010100101 111011011 10101100111 10100101 11110101 1110101 10100110101 1100111 11101001001 1100101 10011101 1100101 10110100 11001110 010110100 1011110 1100101101 1101101 1110100101 11100100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words oh, and are repeated.
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