This is an analysis of the poem The April Snow-Storm, 1858 that begins with:

Spread lightly, virgin shower,
Your winding-sheet of snow;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBab Cdcd ebeb Afaf aBab Cdcd Agag
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010 110101 1011010 111101 111111 110101 1011001 110101 110111 111101 110101 1110101 1101010 110111 1101110 010111 1101010 110101 1111010 111101 111111 110101 101101 111101 1101010 011111 1101010 110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; not is repeated.

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

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