This is an analysis of the poem Snow Is Falling that begins with:

Snow is falling: snow is falling.
Geranium flowers reach...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXbX Ccbd Aefe gbdg chch XfXX i daXaCiad
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,1,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 0100101 1010111 10101 1010101 011101 01011011 010111 10101010 111101 11010101 001101 10110111 0101010 011101 1110010 0101111 01110101 110001 100011 10101010 100111 01111 01110 1101 110101 101110 110010 110110 1010101 0100101 11010 010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; snow, falling are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, snow are repeated.

    The author used the same word snow at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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