This is an analysis of the poem Snow that begins with:
White are the far-off plains, and white
The fading forests grow;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcX dadaXc dedeff dgdgff hXhebb ccccii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 010101 01110101 110101 010011111 111100 01011111 011101 01010101 110101 01011100 000111 01111101 110101 11110001 011111 01110111 010101 11110100 110111 01010111 111101 10010111 010111 01000111 0101010 110001111 111101 11010101 1100111 01010101 110111 01110101 010111 11011101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Snow;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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