This is an analysis of the poem A March Snow that begins with:
Let the old snow be covered with the new:
The trampled snow, so soiled, and stained, and sodden. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbb acac ddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011010001 01011111110 1001010011 11111101100 1101110111 1101000111 1011010101 0111110101 1001010001 1111110111 101110001001 1011000101 1100010111 10101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word let is repeated.
The author used the same word let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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