This is an analysis of the poem To The Snowdrop that begins with:
Like pendent flakes of vegetating snow,
The early herald of the infant year,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XXcd dede fcfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010001 0101000101 110010010101 0101011101 1101111001 1101000101 11011101010 0101001101 1111010111 0101010111 1011110101 11111000101 110010011001 1111010101 11001000111 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of To The Snowdrop;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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