This is an analysis of the poem The Path Through The Snow that begins with:
BARE and sunshiny, bright and bleak,
Rounded cold as a dead maid's cheek, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddbbcc ddeecX ffggcc bbhhccXddaacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 10110111 10110101 110010101 111111 100101101 10110101 11011101 1001001001 11110111 1111 1001101101 111101101 10111111 100101101 111101101 111111 1101101101 010101101 10100101 1110010100 1101001001 1111111 1111101001 010001101 10010101 10010101 110100101 111101 1001101101 1101100111 111100101 011100111 11111111 111111 10101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; us is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word snow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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