This is an analysis of the poem It Is Going To Snow that begins with:

It is going to snow in a few days. I remember
This time last year. My heart, O how it bled!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbX cddc baab dbbd edde XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00100100111010 0111111101 11011111111 10110100100 1111111000 01111101110 011111111110 01010101101 1111110110 11110111110 01111101110 1101011011 11111110110 11110101101 1011111111 101110010010 0110011111 11110111010 110010101010 0111010101 101101110011 1101000111 1110101011100 01101101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; it, i, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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  • summary of It Is Going To Snow;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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