This is an analysis of the poem Twilight On The Snow that begins with:

Before the hill's high altar bowed,
The trees are Druids, weird and white,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba XcXX dcXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011101 01110111 10010001 01010101 11010110 11010101 10100100 01011111 01010101 11011101 11010100 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Twilight On The Snow;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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