This is an analysis of the poem Snow Day that begins with:
Today we woke up to a revolution of snow,
its white flag waving over everything,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXd ecccb fgfXX fahgd eeeeX iiiei hXfbf eabcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0111100101001 0111010101 01110 101010101010 101110 01001010 111101001101 1001001 0101101 011010010 001101111 11111110010 101010101 11010101 1001101111 11111010100001 0101000010101 1010101 11000101011010 1111000101 101010101 01111 01011011 01110011 01010001001 01010101 10101001 10111111011 01111011 111101011 1001010111 1101111011 11111110110 110110110 11011100101 11111001 0010110001 10011111110 110001 1110010011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; school, closed, little, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, little, all are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines closed, school are repeated).
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- summary of Snow Day;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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